What is his background?

Campaigners argue the judge has pushed bigoted and racist immigration policies espoused by the Trump White House.

Mr Menashi, who holds no previous experienced as a judge, has a highly controversial track record and has faced fierce criticism for his time working with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos as a legal adviser.

The New-York born judge supported Ms DeVos in rolling back a slew of Obama-era protections for LGBT+ students while working in the department of education.

Significant adjustments were made to Title IX – a federal civil rights law which bars discrimination based on sex in schools that get federal money – by Ms DeVos while Mr Menashi worked at the department.

This overhaul included a suggested measure which would permit universities to shelve many sexual harassment complaints.

Mr Menashi also lent his backing to workplaces being able to enforce their own religious views on staff and bans on them from having birth control covered by the Affordable Care Act.

The judge has been roundly criticised for dozens of blog posts and editorials penned in the late 1990s and early 2000s which contain provocative remarks about women, Muslims, ethnic minorities and the LGBT+ community.

He once branded Roe v Wade ​– the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalised abortion nationwide in 1973 – an example of “radical abortion rights.”