Huge row erupts in Senate as Ted Cruz lambasts Biden-nominated judge
A blazing row erupted in a Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday over a Biden-nominated judge who put a 6'2" transgender woman convicted of multiple child rapes in a women's prison.
New York judge Sarah Netburn dismissed the Bureau of Prisons' concern for female inmates' safety and moved July Justine Shelby, born William McLain, to a women's prison in August 2022.
Shelby, 60, had previously been convicted in two separate Indiana state cases of child molestation of a nine-year-old boy and rape of a 17-year-old girl, served 18 years in state prison, then violated parole and was sentenced to 15 years in state prison in 2017 for distributing child porn.
During Netburn's confirmation hearing for a federal judge position on Wednesday, Republican senators grilled her on the case.
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