Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) grilled public defender Richard Federico during a Wednesday hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, pressing him on a prior trial in which he’d asked for a light sentence in a child pornography case.
Biden nominated Federico, a U.S. Navy Reserve officer and federal public defender based in Kansas, to serve on Denver’s 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — but Hawley had some questions about his record.
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A Biden judicial nominee is seeking a lifetime appointment to the bench but can’t answer why he was way more lenient than the federal government in sentencing a man guilty of child porn distribution.
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“Do you think that that’s a sentence that does justice to his victims?” pic.twitter.com/wI12YY13pE
— Senator Hawley Press Office (@SenHawleyPress) September 6, 2023
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