On Wednesday, GOP Sen. from Louisiana, John Kennedy, exposed Biden’s judicial candidate with fundamental legal questions that are familiar to every first-year law student.
In an ongoing Senate Judiciary Committee trial for various judicial candidates, he talked to U.S. Magistrate Judge S. Kato Crews, who is to be appointed as a U.S. district court judge.
Judge Crews was asked a rather simple question by Kennedy, regarding the evidentiary discovery.
Kennedy questioned:
“Tell me how you analyze a Brady motion?”
In a Brady motion, an accused forces the lawyer in a criminal lawsuit to tip over the possible justifiable proof, which is proof that can potentially help prove the accused is innocent. The basic legal course for this was formed during the Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland.
Despite being appointed as a federal magistrate judge, Crews failed to answer the basic question.
He stated:
“How I analyze a Brady motion? Senator, in my four and a half years on the bench, I don’t believe I’ve had the occasion to address a Brady motion in my career.”
Kennedy asked:
“Do you know what a Brady motion is?”
Crews affirmed:
“Senator, in my time on the bench, I’ve not had occasion to address that, and so it’s not coming to mind at the moment what a Brady motion is.”
The GOP Sen. questioned Crew if he had any knowledge about Brady v. Maryland.
Crews replied that he knows the case, but then stated shockingly that the lawsuit involves Second Amendment rights.
Crews replied:
“I believe that the Brady case involved something regarding the Second Amendment. I have not had occasion to address that. If that issue were to come before me, I would certainly analyze that Supreme Court precedent and apply it, as I would need to to the facts in front of me.”
