Published on May 24, 2024, 12:45 am

During a judicial confirmation hearing, Senator Ted Cruz profoundly questioned U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn about a case focused on a serial child rapist. Netburn has been nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and was one of five judges present at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

Beginning his questions, Cruz asked if political ideology outweighed individual rights in her judgement. This line of questioning arose following a remarkable case involving a man who exhibited continuous aggressive sexual conduct towards children.

When Netburn declared that her political identity didn’t intercede in her decisions, Cruz countered with incredulity, suggesting that the above-mentioned case unmasked her inclination to put personal ideology above justice for victims.

As the conversation progressed, Cruz explained the specific instance that implored his scrutiny–a case in which Justine Shelby, a biological male self-identifying as female, legally submitted an appeal to be placed into a women’s prison following federal conviction regarding child pornography charges. To this plea, Netburn ruled affirmatively.

In continuation of their discourse, Cruz confronted Netburn regarding another incident where she ordered the Bureau of Prisons to move said transgender inmate—who had pleaded guilty of assaulting a 17-year-old—to a women’s prison facility.

Addressing this particular issue with gravity, Cruz raised brows on precise details when he quoted: “This individual…6-foot-2…you said this individual was… ‘sober and entirely female.'” He went on further by confirming whether or not this inmate still conducted male genitalia; to which she acknowledged as true under claims that hormonally, she considered him female.

Rewording his previous statement with skepticism draped onto every word he relayed: “So you took a six-foot-two serial rapist—serial child abuser—with male genitalia and relocated him to be housed in women’s institutional prison after he expressed desire for such?”

In conclusion, Cruz pivoted his question to inquire about the rights and safety of other women inmates housed in the same prison with the serial child rapist.

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