Trump court nominee says he regrets if past writings were 'overheated or extreme'

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Steven Menashi, President Trump's nominee for the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals, said at his confirmation hearing that he regretted if his writings for Dartmouth's conservative student newspaper had been 'overheated or extreme' in advancing his arguments

Steven Menashi, President Donald Trump's nominee for the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals, said at his confirmation hearing that he regretted if his writings for Dartmouth's conservative student newspaper had been"overheated or extreme" in advancing his arguments.

Menashi, a White House aide, was responding to a question from Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island on Wednesday about an editorial he had written in March 2001 on the Human Rights Campaign and identity politics, which compared college applications listing race to the Nuremberg Laws, created in 1935 to segregate Jews in Germany. CNN's KFile first reported on the editorial last month."So, Senator, that has come up," Menashi said.

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This guy is a nut.

Looks like a winner to me!

He’s fine.

lol, but the VA governor is a-ok, eh?

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