Protesters gathered outside the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday to rally against President Trump's latest judicial nominee Steven Menashi.
Menashi was nominated by Trump in August to a lifetime appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The 40-year-old currently serves as the associate White House counsel and special assistant to the president.
Menashi has been under fire for dozens of editorials and blog posts he wrote in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Menashi criticized need-based financial aid, claiming it would hurt the wealthy and called recipients of such aid"grasshoppers." In October 2000, when Menashi was editor in chief of theagainst women's marches and"Take Back the Night" rallies on college campuses.
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