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Bernie Sanders
stated on February 5, 2017 an interview on CNN

Says former President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominations "required 60 votes."

Half-True

By Gabrielle Healy • February 9, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on February 9, 2017 a tweet

Says CNN’s Chris Cuomo "never asked" Sen. Richard Blumenthal about Blumenthal's misstatements on his own service in Vietnam.

False

By Jon Greenberg • February 9, 2017

Mitch McConnell
stated on February 1, 2017 a tweet

"Not a single Democrat opposed Neil Gorsuch's confirmation in 2006."

True

By Amy Sherman • February 3, 2017

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

Sheri Dillon
stated on January 11, 2017 a press conference at Trump Tower

"Paying for a hotel room is not a gift or a present and it has nothing to do with an office. It's not an emolument."

Half-True

By Lauren Carroll • January 13, 2017

Ted Cruz
stated on October 26, 2016 a rally for a Colorado U.S. Senate nominee

"There is long historical precedent for a Supreme Court with fewer justices."

Mostly False

By Bobby Cervantes • November 23, 2016

Richard Burr
stated on October 29, 2016 a private meeting with supporters

"I had the longest judicial vacancy in the history of the United States."

Mostly True

By Will Doran • November 3, 2016

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

Josh Hawley
stated on June 14, 2016 a campaign ad

Says "he fought Obama at the Supreme Court — and won."

Mostly True

By George Ash • October 7, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 26, 2016 the presidential debate in Hempstead, N.Y.

Says "no, you’re wrong," responding to the assertion that stop-and-frisk was ruled unconstitutional in New York.

Mostly False

By Lauren Carroll • September 28, 2016

Chris Collins
stated on August 1, 2016 an interview on MSNBC.

Hillary Clinton "has already said she's going to wipe out the Second Amendment. She doesn't believe in the First Amendment. And, she also believes in big government, which flies in the face of the 10th Amendment"

False

By Dan Clark • August 12, 2016

National Rifle Association
stated on August 10, 2016

Says Hillary Clinton "doesn’t believe in your right to keep a gun at home for self-defense."

False

By Will Doran • August 11, 2016

Michael Bennet
stated on July 11, 2016 a campaign email

Says GOP Senate nominee Darryl Glenn said he wants to see Ted Cruz appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

True

By Alan Gathright • July 13, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 10, 2016 remarks at a Planned Parenthood event

As a result of Roe vs. Wade, "America’s maternal mortality rate dropped dramatically."

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll • June 24, 2016

Paul Ryan
stated on June 19, 2016 an interview

"People have a constitutional right to have semiautomatic rifles."

Mostly True

June 24, 2016

Mitch McConnell
stated on May 31, 2016 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"

Says Obama "called Kagan a moderate. He called Sotomayor a moderate."

Mostly True

By Allison Graves • June 7, 2016

Pat Toomey
stated on April 15, 2016

Says Merrick Garland "authored an opinion that resulted in the release of 17 Guantanamo Bay prisoners who were part of a group of violent Islamist extremists the State Department had designated as terrorists."

Mostly False

By Cassie Owens • June 7, 2016

John Whitbeck
stated on March 28, 2016 an email

Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland "voted to uphold" D.C.’s ban on handguns.

False

By Warren Fiske • April 4, 2016

JoAnne Kloppenburg
stated on March 15, 2016 TV ad

Says the GOP is "helping pay for" Justice Rebecca Bradley's campaign and "she recently skipped court to attend an event paid for" by Scott Walker's "lobbyist friends."

Mostly True

March 31, 2016

Rebecca Bradley
stated on March 21, 2016 an interview

Says JoAnne Kloppenburg "has told us she thinks it's her job to promote a more equal society."

Mostly True

March 30, 2016

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