Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) grilled one of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees on Thursday for allowing a male prisoner convicted of sex crimes to be transferred to a women’s prison.
Cruz questioned U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn, who was nominated by Biden to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, about the incident during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
“In your court, what matters more: the rights of individuals or your political ideology?” Cruz asked.
She claimed that her political ideology “doesn’t matter at all,” to which Cruz responded: “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.”
Netburn acknowledged that the defendant admitted to raping a nine-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl and distributing child pornography that showed adults violently raping children.
The judicial candidate used the criminal’s pronouns and claimed that he was “hormonally a female.”
“So you took a six-foot-two serial rapist, serial child rapist with male genitalia, and he said, ‘You know, I’d like to be in a women’s prison,’” Cruz said. “And your answer was, ‘that sounds great to me.’”
“The other women in that prison, do they have any rights?” Cruz asked.
Netburn asked if Cruz was asking her a question, and then acknowledged that they do have rights.
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“Senator Cruz, I considered the facts presented to me and I reached a decision based on what the law is,” she claimed. “Every person who’s incarcerated has the right to be safe in their space.”
Cruz tore into Netburn, saying that her order was not the type of order that a judge issues, but rather the type of order that a judicial activist would write.
“The Bureau of Prisons argued what I’m saying right now, that if you put this person in a female prison, there will be a risk of sexual assault to the women, and you know what you did? You said you didn’t care about the women,” Cruz said. “I’m gonna quote what you wrote. You wrote, quote, ‘The Bureau of Prisons claimed penological interest in protecting female prisoners from sexual violence and trauma. This interest is legitimate. But there are no signs that petitioner is at risk of reoffending. The record is devoid of evidence of incidents of violence or assault during petitioner’s incarceration when she was the perpetrator, only the victim. A theoretical risk of sexual assault by the prisoner without more cannot support the BOPs position. No evidence, theoretical.’”
Cruz then asked. “In what universe is someone who is a serial repeat child rapist not at a risk of reoffending?”
Netburn repeatedly refused to answer the question and Cruz later noted that she “directly contradicted her own report” during her testimony.
WATCH:
Biden’s nominee to be the judge for the Southern District of New York, Sarah Netburn, is an absolute radical.
She puts ideology before safety when it comes to housing biological men in women’s prisons.
When the Bureau of Prisons WARNED against housing a convicted serial child… pic.twitter.com/4QcMNUbAqC
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) May 22, 2024