The Senate will hold a hearing Wednesday to examine Biden's judicial nominees, some of which will face GOP criticism for their soft-on-crime track records.
"Outnumbered" panel discusses Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., using "defund the police" rhetoric as crime continues to surge.Senate Judiciary Committee
Judge Jonathan James Grey, who was nominated to the District Court of the Eastern District of Michigan, last year granted bail for a man charged with embezzling $2 million and who the government considered a flight risk because for his history of domestic violence, weapons use, a DUI conviction, and lying to and hiding from federal agents, according to a Republican committee aide. Another judge later reversed Grey’s decision and ordered the criminal to be detained while waiting for his trial.
Republicans are also expected to target Julia Kobick, the Massachusetts deputy solicitor general who is nominated to the District Court in Massachusetts. In 2016, Kobick supported the conviction of a Massachusetts woman in 2016 for owning a stun gun that she used to defend herself against her violent ex-boyfriend.
The case was appealed to the Supreme Court, which unanimously rejected Kobick’s argument and called it"frivolous."
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