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Latest Fact-Checks In Criminal Justice

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Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on January 31, 2017 a CNN town hall
Says Neil Gorsuch "comes down on the side of felons over gun safety."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • February 2, 2017
Sylvia Garcia
Sylvia Garcia
stated on January 5, 2017 a press release
Says that in Texas, it’s "already illegal to enter a bathroom to harm someone."
Half-True
By Bobby Cervantes • February 1, 2017
Duane Hall
Duane Hall
stated on December 9, 2016 a speech to the N.C. Courts Commission
North Carolina could save "literally tens of millions of dollars" if it stopped prosecuting 16-year-olds as adults.
Mostly True
By Will Doran • January 27, 2017
Travis Allen
Travis Allen
stated on December 29, 2016 in an op-ed
"Beginning on Jan. 1, prostitution by minors will be legal in California."
Pants on Fire!
By Chris Nichols • January 4, 2017
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on November 18, 2016 an interview
Says Donald Trump "thinks stop-and-frisk is fine."
True
December 9, 2016
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
stated on November 17, 2016 an interview
"Black Lives Matter, who are attacking law enforcement officers" -- Barack Obama "had them to the White House."
Mostly False
December 2, 2016
Lena Taylor
Lena Taylor
stated on October 13, 2016 an opinion column
"Slavery is still allowable under Wisconsin law as long as it’s a punishment for a crime."
Mostly True
November 25, 2016
Virginia
Virginia "Jennie Lou" Leeder
stated on October 17, 2016 an interview with the Austin American-Statesman
Texas spends "more per day to house an inmate than we do on a student."
True
By Fauzeya Rahman • November 18, 2016
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on November 6, 2016 comments on "Meet the Press"
"There’s a section in the Constitution called the Emoluments Clause that says no one, nor their spouses, can take money from foreigners. (Hillary Clinton) has to be guilty of 70 or 100 counts just on that one charge."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll, Tyler Adkisson • November 6, 2016
Conservative Daily Post
Conservative Daily Post
stated on November 1, 2016 a posting on the Internet
"FBI confirms evidence of huge underground Clinton sex network."
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 4, 2016
Russ Feingold
Russ Feingold
stated on October 26, 2016 a radio ad
Says Donald Trump and Ron Johnson "oppose a woman's right to choose and Johnson voted against the Violence Against Women Act."
Mostly True
November 3, 2016
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on November 25, 2016 a TV ad
Says "Morgan Carroll opposed requiring convicted sex offenders to register their online profiles, making it harder to track online sex offenders and child predators."
Mostly False
By Alan Gathright • November 1, 2016
Robby Mook
Robby Mook
stated on October 30, 2016 comments on "Meet the Press"
"There are Justice Department policies against" FBI Director James Comey discussing details of a federal investigation "so close to an election."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • October 30, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 25, 2016 a speech
"The man who was in charge of the investigation of Hillary Clinton accepted essentially from Hillary Clinton $675,000 that went to his wife."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 26, 2016
David Holmes
David Holmes
stated on October 17, 2016 a Facebook post and video
Says Gerald Daugherty advocated lowering the penalty for crimes like strangulation in domestic violence cases because "they just ‘throw more people into the’" jail "‘system." 
Mostly False
By Rachel Rice • October 24, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 19, 2016 the third 2016 presidential debate
"What the District of Columbia was trying to do (with its handgun ban) was to protect toddlers from guns."
Half-True
By Riley Snyder • October 20, 2016
Deborah Ross
Deborah Ross
stated on October 18, 2016 a campaign ad
"Sen. (Richard) Burr voted no on the Violence Against Women Act."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 18, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 13, 2016 a speech
Says Hillary Clinton was "let off the hook" for her email scandal while Gen. David Petraeus had his life "destroyed for doing far, far less."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 18, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 9, 2016 the second 2016 presidential debate
Says after Hillary Clinton helped a man accused of raping a 12-year-old, "she's seen laughing on two separate occasions, laughing at the girl who was raped."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 10, 2016
Loretta Sanchez
Loretta Sanchez
stated on October 5, 2016 a U.S. Senate campaign debate.
"If you give guns to gangs, you can get out of jail free, if (California’s Proposition 57) passes. If you do a drive-by shooting, you can get out of jail free, if Proposition 57 passes. If you discharge guns on a school yard, you can get out of jail free."
False
By Chris Nichols • October 7, 2016
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