Depressed (Part 1)

I have been down in the dumps lately… mainly over what is happening in Washington. I see judges that have been appointed who put the Bible ahead of the Constitution like this person, I say person because the person has no court experience but has been nominated to the second highest court.

Senators blast Trump judicial nominee for silence at hearing
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Associated Press By Mathew Daly
September 11, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators from both parties criticized a nominee for a federal appeals court for declining to answer questions Wednesday about his work in the Trump White House and Education Department.

Steven Menashi, an associate White House counsel, has been nominated by President Donald Trump for the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

This affects me personally because Connecticut is part of the Second District and it affects all of you because the 2^nd District is one of the most influential district in the nation, in is on par with the 9^th.

During his hearing he refused to answer questions from the committee.

Feinstein, the committee's top Democrat, called Menashi's refusal to answer unprecedented, adding that "his attempts to hide his record raise serious questions about his fitness for the federal bench."
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Menashi's silence also frustrated Republicans, including the committee chairman, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who urged the nominee to be more forthcoming.

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., told Menashi that while he is "a really smart guy," he needs to answer questions from senators. "This isn't supposed to be a game," he told Menashi.

So here we have this guy who is being vetted by Congress a lifetime position for the second highest judicial court in the nation and he expects Congress to buy a “pig-in-a-poke.”

What got me was…

Menashi also has drawn criticism for his work on immigration with White House adviser Stephen Miller and at the Education Department, including on a policy that offered new guidance on investigating campus sexual assaults. Critics say the change allows schools to apply a tougher standard of evidence for sexual violence than other civil rights cases and violates Title IX, a federal law forbidding discrimination based on sex in education.
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As the top lawyer at the Education Department, Menashi played a crucial role in executing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' agenda "to make it harder for campus sexual assault victims to seek justice, provide federal funding to schools that discriminate against LGBTQ students, roll back civil rights investigations and undermine critical protections for student borrowers who were defrauded by their institutions," the senators said.

If this guy is confirmed by the Senate he is going to gut the Civil Rights Act

But if McConnell is true to form he is going to ram him down our throats.