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Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 6, 2014 a speech at the CPAC conference
Says President Barack Obama "is the first president we've ever had who thinks he can choose which laws to enforce and which laws to ignore."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2014
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey
stated on February 24, 2014 an op-ed in the "Wall Street Journal"
Says Debo Adegbile "was nominated to serve as a judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals" and "was abruptly withdrawn by the administration."
False
By Steve Contorno • February 27, 2014
Ed Fallone
Ed Fallone
stated on February 5, 2013 an interview
Wisconsin's Supreme Court justices are "deciding fewer opinions in civil and criminal cases than they used to."
False
February 18, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 2, 2012 a Rose Garden press conference
If the Supreme Court throws out the federal health care law, it "would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress."
False
By Molly Moorhead • April 4, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on February 19, 2012 a speech
Claims Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said "she prefers the South African Constitution over the United States Constitution."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • February 28, 2012
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 9, 2012 a speech at the CPAC conference
Says a U.S. Supreme Court justice suggested that some U.S. cases will be decided based on South African law.
False
By Amy Sherman • February 14, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on November 17, 2011 a meeting with the "Palm Beach Post" editorial board
The Affordable Care Act is "not the law of the land."
False
By Becky Bowers • December 1, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 6, 2011 an interview on Fox
Twelve judges have thrown out legal challenges to the health care law because they rejected "the notion that the health care law was unconstitutional."
False
February 8, 2011
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on May 11, 2010 a speech on the Senate floor
On Sandra Day O'Connor: "I think one reason she was a good judge is she had no judicial experience" before she joined the Supreme Court.
False
By Catharine Richert • May 12, 2010
Jeffrey Toobin
Jeffrey Toobin
stated on April 12, 2010 an interview on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report"
"A filibuster has never really been successfully used against a Supreme Court justice."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 14, 2010
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on April 11, 2010 ABC's "This Week"
"No one questioned that she (Judge Sotomayor) was out of the mainstream."
False
April 13, 2010
Presente.org
Presente.org
stated on July 13, 2009 a radio ad
Rep. Adam Putnam was silent when Rush Limbaugh called Sonia Sotomayor a racist.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 14, 2009
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on July 1, 2009 a column in Human Events.
"Obama's Justice-designate Sotomayor threw out (the New Haven firefighters') lawsuit in a sneaky, unsigned opinion -- the judicial equivalent of 'talk to the hand.'"
False
July 10, 2009
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