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 senators Ted Cruz 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, Fox News reported.

Shelby, a convicted sexual offender, had reportedly feared for her life in the men’s …