Cruz Grills Biden Nominee Who Recommended Moving Transgender Rapist to Women’s Prison

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.”

“Okay, so I don’t believe you. And I think this case demonstrates that you are willing to subjugate the rights of individuals to satisfy your political ideology,” Mr. Cruz replied.

Mr. McLain, 60, has previously been convicted in two separate cases of child molestation in Indiana, including one involving a nine-year-old boy and another involving the rape of a 17-year-old girl, court documents show.
He was sentenced to two 18-year terms in state prison to run consecutively, which he served before being released on parole.

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