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…
