Latest Fact-Checks By Alex Holt

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Rachel Maddow says illegal immigration is declining

August 12, 2010

"The overall fact about illegal immigration is that it's not actually getting worse."

Charles Schumer says Supreme Court Justices back campaign disclosure

August 4, 2010

"Eight of the nine justices in the Supreme Court decision (on campaign finance) said that not only is it constitutional for Congress to require disclosure…

E-mail says Obama had to have been traveling on another country’s passport to get into Pakistan

July 30, 2010

When Obama went to Pakistan in 1981, he could not have been traveling as a U.S. citizen.

E-mail claims Obama’s college transcripts reveal Indonesian citizenship

July 30, 2010

A transcript released by Occidental College proves that Barack Obama was an Indonesian citizen.

E-mail claims Supreme Court agreed to rule on Obama’s citizenship

July 30, 2010

Justice Antonin Scalia agreed for the Supreme Court to hear a case about whether Barack Obama is eligible to be President.

Sheriff in McCain campaign ad claims more than half of illegal immigrants come through Arizona

July 23, 2010

"Of all the illegals in America, more than half come through Arizona."

Joe Biden says health care approval increasing

July 20, 2010

"The health care numbers are going up."

Bloomberg’s Al Hunt says crime is down in Arizona

July 7, 2010

"Crime is down in Arizona."

Scalise blames Obama for ‘inaction’ on berm plan to contain oil spill

June 29, 2010

It was President Obama's "inaction that caused over three weeks to go by before he even approved the governor's plan to protect our marsh."

Sen. Mary Landrieu says U.S. doesn’t allow open-water oil spill practice

June 28, 2010

Canada "does spills into their water to practice in the event that this would happen. That is not allowed in the United States."

Brazile says Clinton loved by 90 percent of Arkansans

June 15, 2010

Ninety percent of the people in Arkansas still love Bill Clinton.

Jerry Brown says California’s not exactly the Golden state when it comes to credit ratings

June 11, 2010

California's credit rating is "the worst in the country."

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