All articles tagged with #brady motion
A Biden judicial nominee, Judge Kato Crews, failed to answer a question on the Brady motion during a Senate Committee hearing. The exchange went viral, with many questioning the judge's qualifications for office. This is at least the second Biden judicial nominee who was unable to answer Constitutional questions this year. The incident has sparked concern online, with some calling it "terrifying."
During a confirmation hearing, Sen. John Kennedy stumped President Biden's trial court nominee Kato Crews by asking him to analyze a Brady motion, a legal concept resulting from the landmark Brady v. Maryland Supreme Court decision in 1963. Crews admitted he had not addressed the issue before and did not remember the case. This is the second time this year Kennedy has stumped a Biden judicial nominee during confirmation hearings.
Biden's federal trial court nominee, Kato Crews, stumbled over a Republican senator's question about the definition of a Brady motion during his confirmation hearing. Crews, a magistrate judge in Denver, has not presided over any criminal cases and was unable to define the motion, which is a request by a defendant to compel prosecutors to turn over potentially favorable evidence. This is the second Biden nominee to stumble during questioning by Republican senators, with the previous nominee, Charnelle Bjelkengren, facing pushback from the committee after failing to answer inquiries about legal theory and constitutional articles.