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These are the people that Bidan is nominating for the Circuit court.They are shockingly dumb

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Sen. Kennedy: “Do you know what a Brady motion is?” Biden judicial nominee Kato Crews: “It’s not coming to mind at the moment … I believe that the Brady case involved something regarding the Second Amendment.”

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Its having to turn over exculpatory evidence to the defendant and I don’t have a law degree

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March 22, 2023, 4:12 PM

Biden Judicial Nominee Stumbles Over Brady Motion Definition (1)

Tiana Headley

A second Biden federal trial court nominee was tripped up over Republican confirmation hearing questions, this time involving a senator’s inquiry about a criminal law tenet.

Kato Crews, a magistrate judge in Denver who’s been selected for a district court seat there, couldn’t define a Brady motion and how to analyze it at his confirmation hearing on Wednesday.

The motion, enshrined in the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Brady v. Maryland, is a request by a defendant to compel prosecutors in a criminal case to turn over potentially favorable evidence.

“I believe that the Brady case involved something regarding the Second Amendment,” Crews said. “I have not had an occasion to address that.”

The question was posed by Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), who’s known for quizzing judicial nominees from both parties about the law and courtroom procedure.

Serving as a federal magistrate judge since 2018, Crews has presided over six cases that have gone to verdict or judgment, none of which have been criminal cases, according to his Senate Judiciary Questionnaire.

Crews noted in his questionnaire answers the limited role magistrate judges play in criminal cases, which he said includes considering petitions for issuance of search warrants, conducting preliminary proceedings, and presiding over the trial and final disposition of misdemeanor cases.

He was previously a founding partner of a small practice, where he focused on civil litigation and labor and employment law.

“It’s certainly possible that he never saw a Brady question,” said Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond. “It may be asking too much to expect him to be intimately familiar with that.”

Crews is the second Biden nominee since January to stumble during Kennedy’s questioning.

Charnelle Bjelkengren, selected for a seat in the Eastern District of Washington, failed to answer inquiries at her confirmation hearing about the scope of Articles V and II and a legal theory about statutory interpretation. Article V deals with amendments and Article II is about the executive branch.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/another-biden-judicial-nominee-stumbles-at-confirmation-hearing

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This was turned over to Bragg by Costello, part of the documents he’s hiding

Chaos at court as Trump grand jury hearing canceled, Bragg now concerned about indictment and ADAs are ‘shaking their heads’

Elizabeth Rosner,

The Manhattan grand jury hearing evidence against former President Donald Trump in the Stormy Daniels “hush money” case didn’t reconvene Wednesday as scheduled, court officials told The Post.

The afternoon session was unexpectedly canceled by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the sources said.

Members of the panel were told to stay home and be on standby for Thursday, a law enforcement source said.

The move — which forestalls a potentially unprecedented indictment of the 45th president in connection with the payment of $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels — came because anunidentified witnesswas unable to appear, sources said.

The witness is believed to be someone who will rebut Monday’s testimony from lawyer and Trump ally Robert Costello, sources said.

The grand jury was put on standby because it was unclear whether the witness would be available Thursday, a source said.

But court workers began making preparations late Wednesday afternoon for the testimony to take place Thursday, a source said.

Wednesday’s turn of events came as a source with ties to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office told The Post that DA Alvin Bragg was concerned following Costello’s testimony.

“The last thing he wants is for the grand jury to vote against him,” the source said. “He wants a no-doubt-about-it case. He is pressuring the ‘Trump obsessed’ to step up and prove the case.”

A source inside Bragg’s office also said asubstantial number of assistant district attorneys were “shaking their heads” over Bragg’s decision to pursue Trump, 76.

“They don’t understand how this case is going forward,” the source said. “These ADAs are not fans of Trump but they are professional lawyers and know the law.”

Fox News also reported “major dissension” inside Bragg’s office, with one source saying the “weakness” of the evidence against Trump was posing problems for prosecutors.

A spokesperson for Bragg declined to comment, saying in an email, “We can’t confirm or comment on Grand Jury matters.”

The $130,000 payment to Daniels in October 2016, shortly before Trump’s shock victory over Hillary Clinton, was admittedly arranged by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to cover up Daniels’ alleged 2006 affair with Trump, who’s denied cheating on his wife Melania Trump with her.

Cohen testified before the grand jury twice last week and is expected to be the prosecution’s star witness if the case were to go to trial.

Cohen — who pleaded guilty in 2018 to crimes that included violating campaign finance rules with the Daniels payment — was on hand Monday to potentially rebut Costello’s testimony, but he told The Post he wasn’t needed.

If Trump were indicted, he would surrender in his home state of Florida and fly to New York to be arraigned, a source close to him told The Post on Monday.

The NYPD doesn’t expect that would happen before next week, sources said Tuesday.

Trump also is not expected to be in New York until next week, a source close to the ex-president said Wednesday.

Bragg is considering charges against Trump that include falsifying business records with the intent to violate federal campaign finance rules, according to the New York Times.

The novel legal theory would make the offense a felony punishable by up to four years in state prison.

https://nypost.com/2023/03/22/trump-grand-jury-canceled-today-delaying-possible-indictment/

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Bragg has fucked up, he thought he’d a hero, but he’s a zeroAnd he’s going to keep on pushing, he’ll end up like Leticia James manning drag parties at the WH