{"id":2024070,"date":"2023-09-06T21:45:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T01:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/josh-hawley-grills-biden-judicial-nominee-for-going-soft-on-client-convicted-in-child-porn-case\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T21:46:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T01:46:08","slug":"josh-hawley-grills-biden-judicial-nominee-for-going-soft-on-client-convicted-in-child-porn-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/josh-hawley-grills-biden-judicial-nominee-for-going-soft-on-client-convicted-in-child-porn-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hawley questions Biden&#8217;s judicial nominee over leniency towards client in child pornography case."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjosh-hawley-grills-biden-judicial-nominee-for-going-soft-on-client-convicted-in-child-porn-case%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2024070&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Senator Josh Hawley \u200dGrills Biden Judicial Nominee Over Light Sentence \u200din Child Pornography Case<\/h2>\n<p>Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/all-of-this-was-false-josh-hawley-rips-into-ag-garland-over-senate-testimony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josh Hawley<\/a> (R-MO) engaged in a fiery exchange with\u200d public defender Richard Federico during a \u2063Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.\u200b The hearing focused on Federico&#8217;s prior trial,\u2063 in which he had requested a lenient sentence for a defendant involved\u2064 in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/democrat-ex-mayor-pleads-guilty-to-140-counts-of-child-porn-facing-decades-behind-bars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">child pornography<\/a> \u2062 case.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden had nominated Federico, a U.S. Navy Reserve officer and\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/josh-hawley-grills-biden-judicial-nominee-for-going-soft-on-client-convicted-in-child-porn-case\/\" title=\"Josh Hawley questions Biden's judicial nominee over leniency towards client in child pornography case.\">federal \u200bpublic defender<\/a> from Kansas, for a position\u200c on Denver&#8217;s 10th U.S. \u2063Circuit Court of Appeals. However, Hawley had concerns about Federico&#8217;s track record.<\/p>\n<h3>WATCH:<\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Biden judicial nominee is seeking a lifetime appointment to the bench but can\u2019t answer why he \u2064was way more\u200b lenient \u200bthan the federal government in sentencing a man guilty \u2062of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ted-cruz-more-republicans-were-considering-voting-for-kbj-confirmation-than-did\/\" title=\"Ted Cruz: More Republicans Were Considering Voting for KBJ Confirmation than Did\">child porn distribution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you think that that\u2019s a sentence that does justice to his\u2064 victims?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wI12YY13pE\">pic.twitter.com\/wI12YY13pE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Hawley Press Office (@SenHawleyPress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenHawleyPress\/status\/1699454067846623739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 6, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hawley began by presenting the details of the case, highlighting that the sentencing guidelines\u200b recommended\u2063 a prison term of up to 240 \u2064months (20 years). Federico, however,\u200c had requested a \u2063significantly lighter sentence of just 105 months.<\/p>\n<p>Hawley pointed out that the government had considered its recommended sentence of 189 months to be lenient. He emphasized the severity of the crime but refrained from discussing its explicit\u2064 details, deeming them too reprehensible.<\/p>\n<p>Federico defended \u200chis position, stating that he \u200chad prosecuted as many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/an-alarming-pattern-sen-josh-hawley-questions-ketanji-brown-jacksons-record-on-child-porn-rulings\/\" title=\"\u2018An Alarming Pattern\u2019: Sen. Josh Hawley Questions Ketanji Brown Jackson\u2019s Record On Child Porn Rulings\">child pornography cases<\/a> as he\u200d had defended. He claimed to understand the suffering of the victims involved.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hawley then confronted Federico with the disturbing \u2064contents of the pre-sentence report, which detailed the defendant&#8217;s involvement\u2063 in child\u200b rape, bondage, and\u200b sexual exploitation.\u200d Hawley\u2062 questioned why Federico had\u2062 recommended a sentence of only 100 months, suggesting that he could have chosen a higher number, such as 175 or even \u2063agreed \u200bwith the government&#8217;s lenient recommendation of 189 months.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting the significant disparity between Federico&#8217;s recommendation and\u2063 the \u2062severity of the crimes committed, Hawley asked, &#8220;Do you think that that&#8217;s \u2063a sentence that does \u2064justice to his victims?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) interrogated public defender Richard Federico in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Hawley focused on Federico&#8217;s request for a lenient sentence in a child pornography case during a previous trial. Federico, a U.S. Navy Reserve officer and federal public defender from Kansas, was nominated by Biden for a new role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2024071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2024070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2024071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}