Latest Fact-Checks In Legal Issues

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Let's Get To Work
Let's Get To Work
stated on July 14, 2010 in a TV ad.
Bill McCollum "diverted a state plane to his home 53 times. A state auditor called it: likely a misuse of state resources."
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman • July 16, 2010
Dave Aronberg
Dave Aronberg
stated on July 2, 2010 an e-mail to supporters.
Dan Gelber's employment by BP's law firm "could disqualify him from representing Florida against BP as Attorney General."
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman • July 15, 2010
Thomas Melsheimer
Thomas Melsheimer
stated on June 7, 2010 an op-ed article
"Across the country, more than half of the U.S. attorney seats remain without a prosecutor chosen by Obama."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • June 10, 2010
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 16, 2010 a press release
Says the EPA "outsourced the scientific basis for its greenhouse gas regulation to a scandal-plagued international organization that cannot be considered objective or trustworthy."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 11, 2010
Jan Brewer
Jan Brewer
stated on April 30, 2010 a news release
Late changes to the Arizona immigration law "lay to rest questions over the possibility of racial profiling."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2010
Paul Workman
Paul Workman
stated on February 18, 2010 a radio ad
"Holly Turner... still takes her homestead (property tax) exemption in Fort Worth."
Mostly False
February 23, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 7, 2010 an interview on CBS
The Bush administration prosecuted 190 suspected terrorists in federal courts.
Mostly False
February 13, 2010
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on January 21, 2010 a press conference
"With a stroke of a pen, the (U.S. Supreme Court) decided to overrule the 100-year-old ban on corporate expenditures."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 22, 2010
Ginny Brown-Waite
Ginny Brown-Waite
stated on October 26, 2009 a letter to President Obama
A president must "obtain Congress' consent before formally accepting the Nobel Prize."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 29, 2009
Patients First
Patients First
stated on September 29, 2009 a news release
"Health care mandate will require imprisonment and fines for Americans who can’t afford to purchase insurance or pay hefty government penalties."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 29, 2009
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 10, 2009 a television interview
Democrats in Congress "had control since January of 2007. They haven't passed a law making waterboarding illegal. They haven't gone into any of these things and changed law."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 13, 2009
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on December 18, 2007 a comment to a shopper at a supermarket in Des Moines, Iowa.
"I can't sign money. That's illegal."
Mostly False
By Bill Adair • December 19, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on October 21, 2007 a Republican debate in Orlando, Fla.
Thompson "voted against $250,000 caps on damages (and) almost anything that would make our legal system fairer."
Mostly False
By Jody Kyle • October 25, 2007
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