The Senate failed to confirm one of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees after learning that he released a criminal on bail who later went on to murder an 11-year-old child.
According to Fox News, Biden had nominated Judge Todd Edelman to serve on the U.S. District Court of Washington, D.C. He currently serves on the district’s Superior Court.
During his time on the Superior Court, Edelman presided over the case of Christian Wingfield, who was in prison awaiting trial for illegal possession of a firearm. Wingfield was released on bail and went on to be involved in the murder of 11-year-old Devon McNeal in July of 2020.
According to WUSA, in June of this year, Wingfield was sentenced to nine-and-a-half years in prison with five years of supervised release.
During the confirmation hearing, Edelman defended his decision to release Wingfield, saying that illegal gun possession was a “non-violent” offense and was not the one who fired the gun that killed McNeal.
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Despite the defense, a vote to advance Edelman’s nomination to the full Senate never took place, meaning that his nomination will expire at the end of the 117th Congress.
In a statement to Fox, Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee said, “A child is dead because Judge Edelman didn’t do his job, and now he wants a promotion. I cannot support a nominee who has shown such reckless disregard for his duty to keep Americans safe.”
And there lies the heart of the matter, here we have yet another case of leftist “soft-on-crime” policies doing real harm.
In this case, a man who was in jail for illegally possessing a deadly weapon was freed and went on to murder a child. The death of McNeal is a direct result of Edelman’s refusal to enforce the law.
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But this is only the latest example of the damage that these policies have on society. In 2019, as part of a bail reform law, New York introduced cashless…
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