Latest Fact-Checks In Legal Issues

Clear
stated on April 30, 2025 a TikTok post
“President Trump has granted pardons that have wiped out over $1 billion in debts owed by wealthy Americans who have committed fraud and broken the law.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2025
Susan Crawford
Susan Crawford
stated on March 12, 2025 TV debate
"Brad Schimel said that he wanted to be part of Donald Trump's support network."
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • March 28, 2025
Eric Hovde
Eric Hovde
stated on October 8, 2024 Public appearance
“Milwaukee is one of the sex trafficking capitals in our country.”
Mostly True
By Ricardo Torres • October 29, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on July 17, 2024 a campaign video
"Unlike Mike Pence, (JD) Vance said he would have carried out Trump's plan to overturn the 2020 election."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • July 18, 2024
Van Wanggaard
Van Wanggaard
stated on April 15, 2024 X, formerly Twitter
Says Gov. Tony Evers is asking the GOP to release money for PFAS, but "vetoed (a bill outlining) how to spend the money."
Mostly True
By Laura Schulte • June 14, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 10, 2023 a speech
In the U.S., “a person can be married in the morning and thrown out of a restaurant for being gay in the afternoon.”
Mostly True
By Grace Abels, Nuria Diaz Muñoz • June 16, 2023
Vivek Ramaswamy
Vivek Ramaswamy
stated on April 30, 2023 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed “a last-minute exception into an anti-discrimination law for anyone who also operates a theme park more than 25 acres in Florida,” benefiting Walt Disney Co.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Matthew Crowley • May 4, 2023
X posts
X posts
stated on April 18, 2023 a Tweet
Missouri’s attorney general has a website “where people can report trans individuals and the people who help them.”
Mostly True
By Grace Abels • April 20, 2023
Walgreens
Walgreens
stated on March 6, 2023 a statement
Walgreens’ position “has always been” to “dispense Mifepristone in any jurisdiction where it is legally permissible to do so.”
Mostly True
By Samantha Putterman • March 15, 2023
Senate Majority PAC
Senate Majority PAC
stated on October 19, 2022 Political ad
Says "Ron Johnson is making excuses for rioters who tried to overthrow our government, even calling them ‘peaceful protests.’”
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • November 3, 2022
Mandela Barnes
Mandela Barnes
stated on September 2, 2022 News release
Says under his plan to end cash bail "the Waukesha perpetrator wouldn’t have been released "
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • September 22, 2022
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on July 18, 2022 Twitter
"With three months remaining in the Fiscal Year, (the border patrol) has already encountered more illegal immigrants along the Southwest border" than in any previous fiscal year.
Mostly True
By Vanessa Swales • August 18, 2022
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 24, 2022 a speech
The Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade "made the United States an outlier among developed nations in the world" on abortion rights.
Mostly True
By Madison Czopek • June 24, 2022
Don Beyer
Don Beyer
stated on May 2, 2022 a tweet.
“Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett assured the Senate Judiciary Committee and the American people that Roe v. Wade was ‘established precedent.’”
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • May 5, 2022
Meagan Wolfe
Meagan Wolfe
stated on November 5, 2021 TV interview
"Only a court can decide that somebody is incompetent to vote" -- the state Election Commission "cannot force facilities, private facilities, to allow special voting deputies" inside.
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • November 18, 2021
Eric Toney
Eric Toney
stated on August 22, 2021 TV interview
"I'm the only front-line prosecutor in this race that's actually used the resources of the Wisconsin Crime Lab in the prosecution of cases."
Mostly True
By Alan Hovorka • September 13, 2021
Elise Stefanik
Elise Stefanik
stated on July 6, 2021 a tweet
Every time outgoing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo “says the firearm industry ‘is immune from lawsuits,’ it's false.”
Mostly True
By Cassidey Kavathas • August 13, 2021
Clarence McNeill
Clarence McNeill
stated on April 7, 2021 an email to students
The use and possession of marijuana on U.S. college campuses “remains prohibited under federal law”
Mostly True
By Landon Allison • June 7, 2021
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on April 14, 2021 Twitter
“Regulating and taxing marijuana—much like we do alcohol—would generate more than $165M in revenue starting in 2022”
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • May 12, 2021
Julian Bradley
Julian Bradley
stated on March 15, 2021 news article
The latest stimulus package "sends stimulus checks to imprisoned murderers, rapists, and child molesters.”
Mostly True
By Haley BeMiller • March 26, 2021
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