Cruz: BIDEN JUDGE PUT A SIX FOOT TALL SERIAL CHILD RAPIST IN A WOMEN'S PRISON
A President Biden judicial nominee was grilled Wednesday over a 2022 recommendation that a biological male, who has apparently transitioned and identifies as a female, be transferred to a female prison despite previous convictions for raping children and possession of child pornography.
During a Senate Judiciary hearing, Republican Sens. John Kennedy of Louisiana, and Ted Cruz of Texas, questioned U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn, who was nominated to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, over why she recommended William McClain, who goes by July Justine Shelby, be housed with female inmates in a federal prison.
"Miss Shelby said I don't want to go to a male prison. I want to go to a female prison," Kennedy told Netburn. "And the Board of Prisons said 'What planet did you parachute in from? You're going to a male prison with this kind of record.' And you sent him to a female prison, did you? You said that the Board of Prisons was trying to violate Ms Shelby, former Mr. McClain's, constitutional right, didn't you?"
Cruz questioned Netburn about Shelby's male appendage
"And this individual. Six-foot-two, biologically a man. A minute ago you said that when this man decided that he was a she, that you said this individual was quote, I wrote it down, 'sober and entirely a female,'" he said. "That phrase struck me as as remarkable. Did this individual have male genitalia?"
"Sorry, what I meant to say was hormonally a female," Netburn replied before admitting Shelby has male body parts.
"So you took a six-foot-two serial rapist. Serial child rapist with male genitalia," Cruz said. "And he said, you know, I'd like to be in a women's prison. And your answer was, 'That sounds great to me.' Let me ask you something. The other women in that prison, do they have any rights?
"Do they have the right not to have a six-foot-two man who is a repeat serial rapist put in as their cellmate?" Cruz added.
"Senator Cruz, I consider the facts presented to me, and I reached a decision," the judge said before noting that everyone incarcerated has a right "to be safe in their space."
Cruz then referred to Kennedy's earlier remarks when he called Netburn a "political activist."