Steven James Menashi

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American federal judge (born 1979)

Steven James Menashi (born October 4, 1979)

is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit since 2019. Prior to his appointment, he was a professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School of George Mason University and an official in the first Trump administration .

Early life and education

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Menashi was born in 1979, in White Plains, New York . Menashi's grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Iraq and Ukraine ; his maternal grandfather's relatives were murdered in the Holocaust .

Menashi graduated from Dartmouth College in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts , _magna cum laude _. He worked at the Hoover Institution from 2001 to 2004, and concurrently studied at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies . From 2004 to 2005 he was an editorial writer for The New York Sun . He then attended Stanford Law School , where he was an editor of the _Stanford Law Review _. He graduated in 2008 with a Juris Doctor and was inducted into the Order of the Coif .

Legal career

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Menashi served as a law clerk to Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2008 to 2009. From 2009 to 2010, he was at Georgetown University Law Center as an Olin-Searle Fellow, a program offered by the Federalist Society . He then clerked for Justice Samuel Alito of the United States Supreme Court from 2010 to 2011.

From 2011 to 2016, Menashi worked in the New York City office of the law firm Kirkland & Ellis , where he became a partner . While at Kirkland & Ellis, Menashi was a Research Fellow at the New York University School of Law and the Opperman Institute for Judicial Administration for three years, from 2013 to 2016.

From 2016 to 2017, Menashi was an assistant professor of law at George Mason University 's Antonin Scalia Law School , where he focused on administrative law and civil procedure .

Trump administration

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In 2017, Menashi took a leave of absence from George Mason to become the Deputy General Counsel for Postsecondary Service at the United States Department of Education and served as General Counsel on an acting basis for that department as of May 24. At the Department of Education, Menashi helped devise a plan by the Department of Education to deny debt relief for thousands of students who were cheated by for-profit colleges . The plan, which used students' private Social Security data, was ruled illegal by a federal judge. The Department argued that the plan only involved the use of "aggregate, statistical data without any personal identifiers". His role as acting general counsel ended on April 23, 2018, after Carlos G. Muñiz was confirmed to that position by the U.S. Senate.

In September 2018, Menashi moved to the White House to become a Special Assistant to the President and Associate Counsel to the President. While in the Office of the White House Counsel , Menashi reportedly worked with Senior Advisor Stephen Miller on several immigration policy issues, including Trump's remain in Mexico policy and revised interpretations of the public charge rule .

Federal judicial service

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Appointment

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On August 14, 2019, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Menashi to serve as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit .

On September 9, 2019, his nomination was sent to the Senate. That same day, the American Bar Association rated Menashi as "well q

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In Henry v. County of Nassau (2d Cir. 2021), Menashi ruled that a prohibition on firearms ownership based on an ex parte order of protection violates the Second Amendment .

In _United States v. …