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Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 6, 2014 in 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 in 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Says Debo Adegbile "was nominated to serve as a judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals" and "was abruptly withdrawn by the administration."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 in an interview:
Wisconsin's Supreme Court justices are "deciding fewer opinions in civil and criminal cases than they used to."
False
By Tom Kertscher • February 18, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 2, 2012 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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
By Robert Farley • February 8, 2011
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on May 11, 2010 in 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 in 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 in ABC's "This Week":
"No one questioned that she (Judge Sotomayor) was out of the mainstream."
False
By Robert Farley • April 13, 2010
Presente.org
Presente.org
stated on July 13, 2009 in 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 in 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
By Wes Allison • July 10, 2009
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