The Senate on Thursday rejected President Joe Biden’s nominee to the Manhattan federal trial court. It was the first time a Biden judicial nominee has been rejected in the Democratic-majority Senate.
The Senate Judiciary Committee, on an 11-10 vote, rejected federal magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn’s nomination to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Every Republican voted against her, along with one Democrat, Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia.
If approved, Netburn would have served for life.
Netburn was rejected in part because of her decision to allow a male rapist to transfer to a women’s prison because he said he was a woman.
Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee excoriated Netburn for placing women in danger that way.
“The prisoner dubbed July Justine Shelby—his real name is William McLean—was a serial rapist,” Sen….
