Cruz Grills Biden Nominee Who Recommended Moving Transgender Rapist to Women’s Prison
Published on May 23, 2024
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) questioned one of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees on Wednesday about why she recommended that a biologically male prisoner convicted of multiple sex crimes be transferred to an all-female prison. The Republican lawmaker quizzed U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing over her 2022 recommendation that July Justine Shelby—born a biological male named William McLain—be transferred to the women’s prison that same year. “In your court, what matters more: the rights of individuals or your political ideology?” Mr. Cruz asked during the hearing, to which Judge Netburn responded that she applies “the law to the fact” and that her political ideology “doesn’t matter at all.”...