Approaching Sodom > Tom Cotton seeks to ban light sentences for trans criminals and men in women's prisons

 

Sen. Tom Cotton seeks to ban light sentences for trans criminals, kick men out of women’s prisons

By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Wednesday, October 08, 2025

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., speaks during a hearing to examine United States Special Operations Command and United States Cyber Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2022 and the Future Years Defense Program, on Capitol Hill on March 25, 2021, in Washington, D.C. | Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images

A U.S. senator has introduced legislation banning judges from considering an inmate’s self-declared gender identity when determining prison sentences and prohibiting trans-identified men from being housed in women’s prisons amid outrage over a light sentence given to a man who now claims to identify as female, after he attempted to assassinate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. 

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., introduced the Preventing Violence Against Female Inmates Act on Wednesday. The legislation would prohibit the Bureau of Prisons from putting female inmates in danger by housing trans-identified male inmates in women's correctional facilities and would withhold federal funds from states that fail to comply.

“Prisoners should be placed based on their biological sex, not on what they choose to ‘identify’ as,” Cotton said in a statement published Wednesday. “Documented cases prove that men — including men who ‘identify’ as women — in women’s prisons put female inmates at increased risk of sexual assault. My bill decreases the risk for women by ensuring men and women are separated in federal prison.” 

In an X post on Wednesday, Cotton added, “‘Gender identity’ shouldn’t be a factor when determining sentencing. That’s why I’m introducing two bills to ensure all criminals are properly sentenced and placed in the correct prisons.” 

Cotton’s introduction of the Fair Sentencing Act comes less than a week after Judge Deborah Boardman, appointed to the bench by former President Joe Biden, generated outrage for sentencing Nicholas Roske to eight years in prison for attempting to assassinate Kavanaugh in 2022. 

Roske’s attorneys had submitted a sentencing memo to Boardman detailing how their client identifies as a woman named Sophie and insisting that his longstanding issues with gender identity and mental health justified a sentence far shorter than the 30 years recommended by the U.S. Department of Justice. The DOJ has vowed to appeal the ruling, which it condemned as “woefully insufficient.” 

The light sentence given to Roske isn't the only example of a trans-identified male criminal receiving preferential or sympathetic treatment from a judge due to his chosen gender identity.

At an event hosted by The Christian Post last year, titled “Unmasking Gender Ideology II,” Amie Ichikawa, founder of the ministry devoted to serving the needs of incarcerated women, called Woman II Woman, detailed how one of Biden’s nominees to serve on the federal judiciary wrote a recommendation that a trans-identified rapist be housed in a women’s prison. 

Ichikawa lamented that the judge, Sarah Netburn, wrote “a 48-page recommendation to the higher courts explaining the plight of this individual” who “raped a baby” and “raped a 17-year-old girl” and was “full of sympathy” for the trans-identified prisoner and did not include “even a paragraph about how this was going to impact the incarcerated female population.”

Biden's nomination of Netburn did not advance out of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, which voted 11-10 against advancing her to the full Senate for a vote. 

The failure of Netburn to receive the votes necessary to advance the full Senate was seen as significant because Democrats held a majority of seats in both the Senate and the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., voted with Republicans to derail Netburn’s nomination. 

Ichikawa also recounted the incidents of women being raped by trans-identified male inmates, leading some women to become pregnant with their abuser's baby. 

More than 44 trans-identified male prisoners have “been successful in transferring into women’s prisons.”

Ichikawa described the plight of women's suffering and abuse in prisons as “one of the biggest female human rights crises that I’ve seen in my lifetime” and “the biggest step backwards in women’s rights this century.”

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Landmark online child protection bill gets stalled in US Senate

 

This appears to be a noble attempt to finesse this bill through the Senate with a unanimous vote. It's disappointing that some Senators are holding out to tweak the bill. Meanwhile, children are getting destroyed every hour of every day. Tweak it later, just get it passed and save the kids.

Chuck Schumer faces heat as landmark bill to protect kids online stalls in Congress

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Published July 1, 2024, 6:23 a.m. ET

A landmark bill that would hold Big Tech firms like Meta responsible for online child safety has hit a roadblock in the Senate – and critics are pointing the finger at Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

The Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA would impose a legal “duty of care” on social media firms to protect minors from harassment, bullying, anxiety and sex abuse – or face enforcement action by the Federal Trade Commission.

The bill has 69 cosponsors across the political spectrum in the Senate, including Schumer and co-lead sponsors Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.). In a surprising twist, Snap, X and Microsoft broke ranks with the tech industry to say they support the measure.

Meta hasn’t taken a firm public stance on KOSA specifically, though the company has said it supports federal regulation on online safety. When asked about an older version of the bill on Capitol Hill earlier this year, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew said the company could support it with some changes.

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is also a co-sponsor of the Kids Online Safety Act.

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Some of the bill’s proponents, including parents whose children were victims of online abuse, remain optimistic that KOSA will become law before the end of the year. However, others have grown exasperated by Schumer’s failure to schedule a floor vote despite the clear bipartisan support.

“I cannot understand why he’s not bringing it to the floor,” said Mary Rodee, a New York resident who lost her 15-year-old son Riley to suicide in 2015 after he was targeted in a sextortion scheme on Facebook.

“I just have to keep being like, ‘okay, I guess that’s not the plan.’ But that all seems like it’s a political dog-and-pony show.”

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Mary Rodee, whose 15-year-old son Riley died by suicide after being victimized by a Facebook extortion scheme, is a vocal advocate for KOSA.

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Calls to pass the bill gained steam earlier this year after a bombshell Senate hearing in which Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued a stunning apology to the families of victims of online child sex abuse. The Facebook and Instagram owner currently faces a federal lawsuit from dozens of states who allege its addictive apps have exposed children to harm and fueled a youth mental health crisis.

Rodee said the apology rang hollow — and lawmakers shouldn’t have allowed it.

“You gave Mark Zuckerberg a stage to apologize to us that he didn’t deserve,” Rodee said. “To me, that never should have happened. I have distrust in all of it.”

Meta did not immediately return a request for comment.

As The Post has reported, KOSA is one of several bipartisan online safety bills on the table — and the one considered most likely to become law. It was introduced in the Senate last year, with companion legislation coming to the House in April.

Schumer has insisted KOSA is a “top priority” and sought to move the bill through unanimous consent, a fast-tracked process to pass legislation as long as no senator objects. Doing so would allow the Senate, which is running short on remaining floor time ahead of the 2024 election, to avoid a lengthier roll call vote.

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Parents groups have pressured Congress to pass the Kids Online Safety Act to protect minors.

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In a floor speech last week, Schumer said some senators still had blocks on the bill and said the Senate “must pursue a different legislative path to get this done” if terms can’t be reached.

One key objector is Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who is not expected to drop his opposition. Paul’s office didn’t return requests for comment.

“They’ve already got moms who’ve had tragedies with their kids coming up to me, but someone has to have the guts to read the bill, see what’s wrong with it,” Paul recently told the Huffington Post. “If they want it unanimously, they have to negotiate.”

Another is Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who, sources said, has sought assurances that KOSA would not weaken Section 230, a controversial statute that shields tech firms from liability for third-party content posted on their platforms. Wyden was one of the statute’s original co-authors.

“There have been productive discussions on KOSA,” a Wyden aide said. “It’s moving in the right direction. He has not yet lifted his hold.”

In the meantime, Parents for Safe Online Spaces, whose bereaved members lost children to online harm, has pressed Schumer to act.

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Sen. Rand Paul is one of the known objectors to KOSA.

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Over Father’s Day weekend, the group placed billboards in Times Square urging the senator and other lawmakers to “save kids’ lives” by passing KOSA. The parents also recently sent a letter reminding Schumer that he’d promised to hold a vote by June 20 – a deadline that has come and gone.

“There’s definitely some frustration,” a source close to the situation told The Post. “I think the ads and the letter that the parents sent last week kicked that office into another gear. It’s frustrating that didn’t happen sooner.”

“There’s definitely some frustration,” a source close to the situation told The Post. “I think the ads and the letter that the parents sent last week kicked that office into another gear. It’s frustrating that didn’t happen sooner.”

A Schumer spokesperson said the senator “has helped build bipartisan support for the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and has met with the families, heard their incredibly moving stories, and is working in lockstep with them to get the bill passed.”

“Leader Schumer will continue to push to lift frivolous holds so we can finally pass this bill and protect millions of American children across the county,” the spokesperson added.

KOSA faced another setback after the House Energy and Commerce Committee abruptly canceled plans Thursday to mark up the bill – the final step before a floor vote in the lower chamber. Advocates are pushing for the markup to be rescheduled after a July 4 recess.

Outside of Congress, the bill has its share of opponents, including the ACLU and the digital advocacy group Fight For The Future. The latter has described KOSA as “a dangerous censorship bill that would give the government unprecedented control over the internet.”

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An aide for Sen. Ron Wyden confirmed the Democrat has yet to drop his hold on KOSA.

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Chamber of Progress, a Big Tech-funded trade group, argues the bill will force tech firms to “over-moderate” the internet.

A Blackburn spokesperson noted that KOSA “has the wide support of conservatives across the board including the Heritage Foundation, America First Policy Institute, the Ethics and Public Policy Center and dozens of other organizations.”

“Senator Blackburn has fought for years to protect our children online and looks forward to seeing KOSA signed into law,” the spokesperson said.

Despite the remaining hurdles, the bill’s backers say they are optimistic that it will ultimately be passed.

Rodee, who was part of a group of parents that met with Schumer about KOSA in May, said his office has been responsive about the bill’s status, even if progress has been slowed than she’d hoped.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized to the families of victims of online abuse and exploitation.

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“I have been very furious at Schumer, but I will say, they communicate very well with me,” said Rodee. “His chief of staff will get on the phone any time I need to be talked down. I do really sense that they’re working on it.”

Blumenthal praised Schumer for leading negotiations with the Senate holdouts and said he was “confident based on my conversations” with the top Democrat that “we are going to get this bill done.”

“It’s remarkable that the parents have gotten things this far,” said Josh Golin, executive director of the online advocacy group Fairplay and co-founder of ParentsSOS. “I can’t even quantify how much we’re outspent and outgunned by the tech industry.”

A TikTok spokesperson said in a statement that the wildly popular photo app “strive(s) to promote a safe and age-appropriate experience on TikTok through robust safety policies and parental controls, a neutral age-gate, and a team of more than 40,000 safety professionals.

“There are a range of potential options that can further youth safety online, and we welcome Congress’ participation in that discussion.”

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The Perverted Lives of the Rich and Famous > Depardieu loses Order of Quebec in #MeToo moment; Gay Senate Staffer fired for stupidity

 

French actor Gérard Depardieu stripped of

Order of Quebec after obscene documentary remarks

By Staff  The Canadian Press

Posted December 13, 2023 2:48 pm

 Updated December 13, 2023 2:50 pm

French actor Gérard Depardieu speaks at the Montreal World Film Festival in Montreal, Monday, Sept.6, 2010. Depardieu has been stripped of his Order of Quebec after shocking comments made by the actor in a recent documentary. Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press

The Quebec government has stripped French actor Gérard Depardieu of his Order of Quebec after “shocking” comments made by the actor came to light in a documentary film.

The release of a documentary in France this month showing him repeatedly making obscene sexual remarks and gestures during a 2018 trip to North Korea has caused the French actor’s behaviour towards women to come under scrutiny once more.

The footage, filmed by a professional crew that covered Depardieu’s visit during the 70th anniversary of North Korea’s formation, was included in an investigative documentary that aired last week on French TV, and some of the clips have gone viral on social media.

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Quebec Premier François Legault announced Wednesday the decision to remove Depardieu from the order, acting on a recommendation from the council that oversees the honour.

Legault says in a statement that Depardieu’s comments have shocked people around the world and his behaviour has tarnished the reputation of Order of Quebec members.

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Depardieu, 74, was named a knight of the Order of Quebec in 2002 by then-premier Bernard Landry, and he becomes the first person to be removed.

Among France’s most well-known movie stars, Depardieu was put under investigation in December 2020 for rape and sexual assault following allegations from actor Charlotte Arnould in 2018. The investigation is ongoing.

Depardieu has denied any criminal conduct.

— With files from The Associated Press

Help me out with my very poor French s'il vous plaît, does 'Depardieu' translate to 'departed from God'?

Senate staffer who allegedly filmed public sex

in Congress ousted from Ben Cardin’s office

A US Senate staffer allegedly caught filming himself having sex in a Judiciary Committee hearing room no longer has his job, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Maryland) said on X.

“Aidan Maese-Czeropski is no longer employed by the U.S. Senate. We will have no further comment on this personnel matter,” a Cardin spokeswoman told The Post.

Maese-Czeropski, a 24-year-old legislative aide, was accused of posting a video of himself in flagrante delicto with another man on a public X account. His face appeared to be clearly visible, according to The Spectator, which first broke the story Friday.

The roughly eight seconds of intercourse allegedly took place in the same room where nominees to the Supreme Court are grilled by senators and where former FBI boss James Comey once testified about alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Graphic video of the moment was published by The Daily Caller Friday evening. 

The United States Capitol Police launched a probe into potential criminal violations after the video began circulating.

Maese-Czeropski previously was featured in an ad for President Biden — earning a shoutout from his mother’s now deleted X account.

“Thank you for including my son, Aidan Maese-Czeropski, in your thoughtful message to everyone who has supported you,” the staffer’s mother said in a November 2020 post. “He has worked tirelessly with the DNC of Virginia. Congratulations to All!!”

The same year, he apparently wrote on the payment platform Venmo, “I want Joe Biden to spit in my mouth.”

Hmmmm! Sounds like a good Democrat to me?

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