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John Cornyn

John Cornyn is a U.S. senator from Texas, former Texas attorney general and former justice on the Texas Supreme Court. He earlier served as a Bexar County state district judge.

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Latest Fact-Checks Of John Cornyn

Ketanji Brown Jackson didn’t call Bush, Rumsfeld ‘war criminals’ as she defended Gitmo detainees
By Madison Czopek
March 24, 2022

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson called former President George W. Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as “war criminals in a legal filing.”

Cornyn right that annual drug overdose deaths top 100,000
By Nusaiba Mizan
February 21, 2022

"100,000 Americans died of an overdose in a single year."

Photo of Democratic senators huddling without masks is from 2018
By Samantha Putterman
October 14, 2020

Says Democratic senators were missing “masks” as they huddled close together at the Judiciary Committee hearing for Amy Coney Barrett.

Examining Cornyn’s record on Dreamer legalization
By Brandon Mulder
October 3, 2020

Says he “strongly supports legalization for Dreamers.”

Some COVID-19 deaths have been children
By Madlin Mekelburg
July 10, 2020

Says “no one under the age of 20 has died of the coronavirus. We still don’t know whether children can get it and transmit it…

When was the last ‘top-to-bottom’ review of criminal justice system?
By Taylor Goldenstein
July 2, 2020

The United States has not completed a “top-to-bottom review of our criminal justice system at the national level since 1965.”

Checking Cornyn on Chinese culture and coronavirus
By Madlin Mekelburg
March 26, 2020

“China is to blame because the culture where people eat bats and snakes and dogs and things like that, these viruses are transmitted from the…

Fact-checking John Cornyn’s ad on Royce West and abortion
By Madlin Mekelburg
August 8, 2019

Says Royce West stood with Wendy Davis "to support painful late-term abortions."

Fact-checking John Cornyn on drug trafficking, drug overdoses
By Madlin Mekelburg
June 21, 2019

"Texas remains one of the most severely impacted states from drug trafficking. Nearly 3,000 Texans died from drug related deaths in 2017 – with half…

John Cornyn says Obamacare premiums more than doubled in a few years
By W. Gardner Selby
October 4, 2017

Says that under the Obamacare law, health insurance "premiums have increased by more than 105 percent since" 2013.

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