With the help of at least one Democrat, Senate Republicans managed on Thursday to block a pivotal judicial nomination.
In April, President Joe Biden nominated Judge Sarah Netburn, a low-level magistrate judge, to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
There was just one problem: She’s a radical with little appreciation for women’s rights.
The evidence includes the fact that in 2022 she recommended that a transgender, twice-convicted, 6’2″ biological male SEX OFFENDER be housed in a women’s prison.
Meet Judge Sarah Netburn
Joe Biden nominated her for a promotion to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Netburn put a 6’2 biological male serial child rapist, with his genitals intact, separately convicted of violent child p-rn, into a FEMALE prison.… pic.twitter.com/YeR8cvZ77p
— An Open Secret (@AnOpenSecret) July 10, 2024
“At the time, the judge, Sarah Netburn, dismissed concerns that the inmate’s presence there would pose a threat to incarcerated women,” according to the Washington Free Beacon. “Netburn made the recommendation over the objections of federal prison officials, stating that concerns his presence would be ‘traumatizing and possibly dangerous’ were ‘overblown.'”
But she was dead wrong. The transgender criminal, William McClain, aka “July Justine Shelby,” went on to expose himself to his female inmates, surprise, surprise.
“According to Debra Nizza, a former Carswell inmate released in 2016 who remains in communication with female inmates at Carswell federal women’s prison in Texas, an inmate told her that McClain pulled his penis from his pants before a group of female inmates,” according to the Free Beacon.
“Nizza [said] that an inmate related to her that Shelby told the women his penis was ‘intact’ and still functional before wagging it at the women,” the Beacon noted.
This was a big selling point for Republicans.
“Putting political ideology over justice and reality, magistrate Judge Netburn recommended that Shelby be transferred immediately to a woman’s facility,” Sen. Ted Cruz said before Thursday’s vote.
“This judge is ruling the Constitution requires that biological men who wake up one day and say I’m a woman have to be housed with female prisoners. This judge also ruled in effect that female prisoners have no rights,” he added.
The Senate Judiciary Committee just voted against Sarah Netburn’s nomination to be a district judge for the influential Southern District of New York.
This is a MASSIVE victory for women EVERYWHERE.
Why?Netburn insisted on housing a biological male serial rapist in a women’s… pic.twitter.com/CZHud5RGfD
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) July 11, 2024
The argument convinced at least one sane Democrat, Sen. Jon Ossoff, to vote with Republicans.
“I have concerns about the wisdom of the matters discussed in session,” he told Courthouse News after Thursday’s vote, referencing Netburn’s decision to house McClain with women. “These are very challenging decisions for prison officials and for judges.”
All this also comes after Sen. Lindsey Graham recently exposed Netburn for being anti-science. According to reports, he asked her during a hearing whether it’s possible to determine a person’s biological sex by scrutinizing their chromosomes.
The answer is a resounding yes.
Yet this is what Netburn had to say: “I have never studied biology and therefore I am unqualified to answer this question.”
WRONG!
The Senate Judiciary Committee just rejected one of the most extreme nominees to be a federal judge that I have ever seen.
Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn bought the idea that a 6’2” biological male, who is a convicted serial child sex offender, has a constitutional right to be… pic.twitter.com/KM1APD45bs
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) July 11, 2024
Netburn’s nomination was also opposed by the Independent Women’s Forum.
“It would be devastating enough if Magistrate Judge Netburn simply applied a law that created gender-identity-based prisons,” a statement from the group reads. “But that’s not what happened. Magistrate Judge Netburn invented a provision in the Constitution to match her progressive politics.”
“Judge Netburn unrecognizably twisted the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment into a mandate that transgender-identifying males be given access to women’s prisons. This type of judging leads the public to lose faith in the rule of law, because the law becomes the whim of a judge, rather than the hard-earned end result of a democratic process,” the statement continued.
It concludes with the group’s director, Ma Mailman, urging the Senate Judiciary Committee to “reject President Biden’s nomination of Judge Netburn.”
Joe Biden wanted to give a lifetime appointment to a judge who put a male rapist in women’s prison.
We just stopped him. pic.twitter.com/6AqwmSf6nh
— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) July 11, 2024
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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