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Zina Bash
Personal details
Born
Zina Linda Gelman

Monterrey, Mexico
SpouseJohn F. Bash III (m. 2007)[1]
Children1
EducationHarvard University (AB)
Harvard Law School (JD)
Wharton School (MBA)

Zina Gelman Bash is an American attorney who was a senior counsel to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in 2018.

Background and education

Bash is the daughter of Lawrence Gelman, an anesthesiologist and hospital executive.[1] She was born in Monterrey, Mexico and raised in McAllen, Texas.[2]

She is Jewish.[3] Her father is the descendant of Holocaust survivors while her mother is of Mexican descent.[4]

In 2004, Bash received her Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University, where she served on the Undergraduate Council Election Commission.[5] In 2007, she graduated with a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.[6][7] She also holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.[8]

Personal life

In 2007, she married John Bash, who served as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas from 2017–2020. They have a daughter.

Career

Bash clerked for Samuel Alito of the United States Supreme Court, during the 2013-2014 term. Earlier, she clerked for Brett Kavanaugh of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

She has practiced law as an appellate attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and was executive vice president of operations and business development at Doctors Hospital at Renaissance in Edinburg, Texas.[9]

She served as Deputy Director of Policy and Communications for U. S. Senator Ted Cruz’s 2016 Presidential campaign and Senior Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee in U.S. Senator John Cornyn’s office.[10][11][12][13]

In 2017, Bash served in the Trump administration as Special Assistant to the President for regulatory reform, legal and immigration policy on the Domestic Policy Council.[14][15][16][17] Prior to Trump taking office, she served on his agency landing team for the Department of Justice.[18][19] In July 2018, she was named senior counsel on the executive leadership team of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, but had left by August to assist Judge Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court nomination hearing before the Senate.[8][20]

In September 2018, Bash sat behind Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing in which Kavanaugh was accused of sexual assault.[21][22] During the hearing, Bash rested her hand on her arm with her fingers closed into a circle and was accused of making a symbol of "white power."[23] The same hand signal resulted in others being fired or removed from their positions, including a US Coast Guard employee, when they made such gestures during media appearances.[24] Bash's husband called the accusations "repulsive" and a "vicious conspiracy theory".[25][26][3][27] At the next day's confirmation hearing, after the hand signal controversy was widely publicized, Bash texted a judiciary staffer to request a glass of water for Kavanaugh and when the water arrived, she once again made another OK gesture with her hand to signal her thanks.[28] According to The Washington Post, the idea that the OK sign "is a secret symbol for white power owes its mainstream spread to a viral troll campaign aimed at making liberals and the media look gullible." In 2017, anonymous users on the 4chan website engaged in a trolling hoax campaign to "flood Twitter and other social media websites … claiming that the OK hand sign is a symbol of white supremacy." In September 2018, Mark Pitcavage of the ADL, an expert on right-wing extremism, said "Out of all the things you should be legitimately concerned about regarding the Senate confirmation hearings in Washington, DC, today for Judge Kavanaugh & SCOTUS, handshakes and handsigns ought not be among them. Actual serious constitutional issues are at stake."[23] As of 2021, the ADL says "Since 2017, many people have been falsely accused of being racist or white supremacist for using the 'okay' gesture in its traditional and innocuous sense."[29] It is unclear whether Bash made the hand signal to distract from Kavanaugh's controversial confirmation hearing.[30][31][32][33]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Zina Gelman, John Bash III". The New York Times. July 8, 2007. Retrieved September 5, 2018.
  2. ^ Lat, David (April 4, 2017). "Trump White House Lawyers: How Much Are They Worth? (Part 3)". Above The Law. Retrieved September 5, 2018.
  3. ^ a b Gajanan, Mahita (September 5, 2018). "A Kavanaugh Supporter Was Accused of Making a White Power Symbol. She's a Descendant of Holocaust Survivors". Time. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  4. ^ Palmer, Ewan (September 7, 2018). "Was Zina Bash Trolling Critics with Hand Symbol During Brett Kavanaugh Hearing?". Newsweek. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
  5. ^ Conrad, Parker R. (November 27, 2000). "Undergraduate Council Election Commission Gets Tough the Second Time Around". Harvard Crimson. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  6. ^ "Masthead, Vol 119". Harvard Law Review. 2005–2006. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  7. ^ "Staff List-Vol. 120 2006-07". Harvard Law Review. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  8. ^ a b "AG Paxton Names Former Supreme Court Clerk Zina Bash Senior Counsel on His Executive Leadership Team". July 3, 2018. Archived from the original on September 5, 2018. Retrieved September 5, 2018.
  9. ^ Diamond, Dan (January 6, 2017). "'Simultaneous repeal and replace' coalition grows, but will it matter?". Politico. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  10. ^ "Patent Reform Act of 2011, U.S. Senate". Congressional Record, 112th Congress, 1st Session. 157 (34): S1360–S1394. March 8, 2011. Retrieved September 21, 2018. Among the Senate staff who have played a role with regard to this bill are...Zina Bash of Senator Cornyn's staff.
  11. ^ Palmer, Anna; Sherman, Jake; Lippmann, Daniel; Montellaro, Zach (December 23, 2016). "Playbook PM". Politico. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  12. ^ Stern, Seth (May 18, 2017). "Regime Change: President Donald Trump taps alumni for White House and agency hires". Harvard Law Today. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  13. ^ "Scarramucci and other alumni among Trump's recent appointees". Harvard Law Today. July 26, 2017. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  14. ^ "LaVoz Blog: Trump nombra a nueva asesora en temas de política migratoria". Houston Chronicle (in Spanish). January 5, 2017. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  15. ^ "2017 50 Most Beautiful - Zina Bash". The Hill. July 26, 2017. Retrieved September 5, 2018.
  16. ^ Palmer, Anna; Sherman, Jake; Lippmann, Daniel; Montellaro, Zach (December 23, 2017). "Playbook PM". Politico. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  17. ^ Palmer, Anna; Sherman, Jake; Lippmann, Daniel; Montellaro, Zach (January 11, 2018). "Playbook PM". Politico. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  18. ^ "President-Elect Trump Announces First Wave of Agency Landing Teams". November 16, 2016. Archived from the original on December 12, 2016. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  19. ^ Tallett, Olivia P. (January 20, 2017). "What are Latinos from Houston celebrating at Trump inauguration?". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  20. ^ Lindell, Chuck (July 3, 2018). "AG Ken Paxton taps Trump adviser for inner circle". Statesman (Austin, TX). Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  21. ^ https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/what-the-new-book-about-kavanaugh-and-his-accusers-reveals.html
  22. ^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/27/brett-kavanaugh-allegations-sexual-misconduct-complete-list/
  23. ^ a b Rosenberg, Eli; Ohleiser, Abby (September 8, 2018). "Zina Bash moved her hand — and the #Resistance saw a white power symbol. Then she did it again". Washington Post. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  24. ^ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45535715
  25. ^ Brito, Christopher (September 5, 2018). "U.S. attorney defends wife after accusations she made 'white power' sign at Kavanaugh hearing". CBS News. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  26. ^ Choi, David (September 4, 2018). "'Everyone tweeting this vicious conspiracy theory should be ashamed of themselves': US attorney slams accusations that his wife made a controversial hand gesture during Kavanaugh hearing". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  27. ^ Hilliard, John (5 September 2018). "US attorney defends wife after 'white power' sign accusations". The Boston Globe.
  28. ^ Matthews, Dylan (September 5, 2018). "No, a former Kavanaugh clerk didn't flash a "white power sign." Here's what really happened". Vox. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  29. ^ "Okay Hand Gesture". Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  30. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/us/ok-sign-white-power.html
  31. ^ https://www.newsweek.com/zina-bash-trolling-attorney-flashes-white-supremacist-sign-during-kavanaugh-1110264
  32. ^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2018/09/04/that-was-no-white-power-hand-signal-at-the-kavanaugh-hearing-zina-bashs-husband-says/
  33. ^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/27/brett-kavanaugh-allegations-sexual-misconduct-complete-list/
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