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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(114,487 posts)
Thu Jul 11, 2024, 06:47 PM Jul 2024

Ossoff votes with Republicans to block controversial Biden nominee

Source: The Hill

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) voted with Republicans on Thursday to block the nomination of Judge Sarah Netburn, who garnered significant controversy after ruling a transgender woman convicted of sex crimes should be transferred to a federal women’s prison.

It marked a rare instance of a Democrat breaking with the majority to bottle up one of President Biden’s judicial nominees in committee.

Netburn came under sharp criticism from Republican senators after she told Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, that she didn’t know whether it is possible to determine a person’s sex by analyzing their chromosomes.

When asked about determining sex by chromosomal analysis, the nominee told Graham, “I have never studied biology and therefore I am unqualified to answer this question.”

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/ossoff-votes-republicans-block-controversial-154614746.html

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Ossoff votes with Republicans to block controversial Biden nominee (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2024 OP
I'm ok with Democrats from red states ON OCASSION bucking the party line... Mark.b Jul 2024 #1
This is very interesting. Susan Calvin Jul 2024 #2
It's not like the judge interview/vetting process matters anyway. forgotmylogin Jul 2024 #3
That judge has become a meme hueymahl Jul 2024 #4
Good decision cabotnn22 Jul 2024 #5
So roping us all in huh? vercetti2021 Jul 2024 #6

Mark.b

(36 posts)
1. I'm ok with Democrats from red states ON OCASSION bucking the party line...
Thu Jul 11, 2024, 06:59 PM
Jul 2024

to show their voters a little independence. I’m guessing Schumer OK’ed this.

Susan Calvin

(2,024 posts)
2. This is very interesting.
Thu Jul 11, 2024, 07:01 PM
Jul 2024

I couldn't come close to having an opinion without knowing a lot more about it. About the only opinion I can come up with from the post is that I thought that the facts about X and Y chromosomes were taught in high school. They were when I went to high school. I realize that's just the determinant of sex assigned at birth, and that it's a lot more complicated than just XX or XY in some cases even then, but I'm really taken aback, on the face of it, by an educated adult who seems to think you have to study biology to know what X and Y chromosomes are. I'd be interested in knowing more about Ossoff's rationale.

cabotnn22

(37 posts)
5. Good decision
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 04:38 PM
Jul 2024

The judge okayed this serial rapist's move into a female prison. I'm glad Ossoff voted against her. I'm disappointed no other democrat did. If you're a fully intact male convicted of a sex crime I'm sorry - you don't get transfer into a women's prison. Having volunteered for years with female prisoners, they are incredibly vulnerable. A lot of them are survivors of SA. They don't need additional trauma. By the way, this prisoner has been flashing female inmates and is obviously taking the piss out of the system.

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