You probably saw this viral video of Kato Crews who spent four years as a magistrate judge, in which was likely an affirmative action/political favor, before being pushed as a federal district court judge.
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.”
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) March 22, 2023
This was a bad moment as even the media will admit.
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.”
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.
Anyone can make a dumb mistake, but Kennedy is known for quizzing nominees and his question was hardly all that esoteric. Crews reaching into his memory and pulling out the Brady Bill would be fine for a layman, but a very bad look for someone angling to be in the position that he wants.
But really this was the much more damaging part of things.
Biden’s people are all in on equity and that means a manufactured demand for ‘diverse’ nominees whether or not they’re ready to go.
Crews isn’t. Neither was this legal eagle.
“Tell me what Article V of the Constitution does,” Kennedy asked of Spokane County Superior Court Judge Charnelle Bjelkengren during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s proceedings Wednesday.
“Article V is not coming to mind at the moment,” Bjelkengren responded.
“How about Article II?” Kennedy pressed.
“Neither is Article II,” Bjelkengren blanked, leaving Kennedy scratching his head.
Biden nominated Bjelkengren to serve as a federal judge in the Eastern District of Washington.
Kennedy then asked Bjelkengren, a graduate of Gonzaga University School of Law, to define “purposivism,” the method by which judges interpret statutes.
Once again, she was at a loss but tried to explain.
“In my 12 years as an assistant attorney general, in my nine years as a judge, I was not faced with that precise question,” Bjelkengren told Kennedy.
Biden’s people are rushing nominees through the gate and bragging about how they get more judges through the system than Trump (had 2022 gone another way, instead of being bogged down by garbage candidates like Mehmet Oz and Herscher Walker, this might not be an issue) but getting them in is only part of the process. Judges who are this basically ignorant are going to produce rulings that are not only bad politically, but bad legally, with bad consequences for the Left.
And it’s not just the judiciary.
Biden FAA nominee stalls in Senate committee as Republicans call him unqualified – FOX News
Interesting. I remember once in a job interview with HP I was asked some math questions. At the time I felt like they were exam questions to see if I could get the right answer. But I see now it must have been an interviewers trick, to see if I knew anything about the field. These guys obviously don’t know much about their fields.
He has a really big bald head, doesn’t he?
“The elimination of Merit and Competency to attain any position ,job, education etc… will destroy our civilization. ” – Dr. Jordan Peterson
Google Biden Federal Judge nominations appointments. Of the over 100 or so I did see 2 White men.
LOL, except its not a laughing matter.
State’s evidence marked as Exhibit A: Barack Hussein Obama. Still waiting on his records from Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard.
And his fake birth certificate.
Instead of making qualified political rulings they will now make unqualified political rulings.
Another Biden efficiency.
No more waiting as appointees rise within the bureaucracy to the station where they are bereft of competence.
They are incompetent upon arrival.
The only thing any of TaliBidens nominees are qualified for is hanging from a gallows
There are plenty of qualified, meritorious people who happen to be non-white. To ignore them is stupid or evil. I doubt stupidity plays any part in the selection of candidates.
But, where is the outrage from the so-called “communities of color”? The answer to that question is very important.
They don’t want competent people. They want people who know nothing about the subject area, whether it be the law or aviation, who can be relied upon to make political decisions for the Left.
There was a case of an incredibly incompetent pilot who slipped through the cracks for 15 years then crashed a cargo plane off Houston, killing the other 2 pilots in the cockpit as well. Just heard about that for the first time a couple days ago. One of the low IQ affirmative action types, well suited for the West African jungle but not for handling complicated airplanes.
Biden like all Globalists wants all judges from the ICC to overrule the people and rule in favor of the Globalists
All”POLITICS”,All The TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’d like to know how this guy even got through law school without knowing Brady v. Maryland. It’s taught in criminal law, criminal procedure and, many places, Constitutional Law. Plus, as far as I know there are still bar exams for which you have to study. I don’t care what kind of cases he dealt with as a magistrate. As a law school graduate and lawyer he should have known. It is unconscionable that he has been nominated to a federal judgeship.
Promotion. He should have known it, and it suggests he never had to.
You are correct. But I have noticed that even police procedural dramas often mention “Brady material” and the context is clear. People who have no legal training could figure that out.
And he’s ugly as f.
I’ve researched Barack Obama since 2008. IMO, he never actually earned a college degree from Columbia University, nor did he earn a law degree from Harvard. Much about this man is shrouded in mystery, but he clearly lied on multiple occasions, especially in regard to his background and what he really believes, IF he has ever really believed in anything.
He seems to have been a kind of super-duper affirmative action recipient who conned his way into prestigious schools and circles with the help of a number of left-minded people ranging from the communist Bill Ayers to a Saudi Sheik, a lawyer for the Black Panthers, and communist faculty members at Harvard Law School.
I think if the public had known in 2008 half of what I know about him now, they would have demanded a full investigation of him and how he was able to win a US Senate seat. It was all out there, but the liberal media ignored and suppressed it all.
Please, name one person in the Brandon administration who got their job because they are good at it. I can’t think of one. It’s “identity”, all the way down.
The only one I know of was Chris Magnus (he was police chief in my former city, did an excellent job), but they fired him.
The answers from these nominees remind me of the Gen Z “man on the beach”. trivia segments where we are treated with the failure of the American education system,
Show me the unqualified diverse Judge and I will find them to be unqualified and dangerous to be holding a law license!