Legal Scholar and Federal Judge

Steven Menashi

1 article 2009

Steven Menashi is a legal scholar and attorney who contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2009, writing about the expansion of presidential czar appointments. He later served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, having been appointed by President Donald Trump in 2019.

All the President's Czars

October 12, 2009 · Magazine

A bipartisan chorus in Congress, along with a bevy of conservative activists, has denounced President Obama for appointing an unprecedented number of "czars"--special advisers, envoys, deputies, and board chairmen who coordinate the policy efforts of the White House but are not subject to…