Judicial nominee Sarah Netburn has come under fire from Republicans following her recommendation that a trans inmate be housed in a female prison. Netburn, nominated by Democrat president Joe Biden for the federal bench in the Southern District of New York, was grilled by and John Kennedy during a senate judiciary hearing on Wednesday (22 May) over the decision to move transgender inmate July Justine Shelby to a female prison in 2022, reported. Shelby, a convicted sexual offender, had reportedly feared for her life in the men’s prison in Otisville, New York.
“What planet did you parachute in from?” Kennedy asked Netburn, citing the Shelby’s convictions for molesting a nine-year-old boy and raping a 17-year-old girl. “I issued a report and recommendation to the district judge recommending that the district judge transfer the petitioner to a women’s facility,” Netburn replied. “My recommendation was that the petitioner’s serious medical needs were being denied by keeping her in a men’s facility.
” Shelby had reportedly written a petition in April 2020, saying she feared for her health, safety and life, and claiming to suffer from gender dysphoria. It was recommended that she be transferred to a female facility in August 2022. Cruz described Netburn as a “political activist”, claiming incarcerating Shelby in a female prison put other inmates at risk.
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