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John Cornyn

John Cornyn

John Cornyn is a U.S. senator from Texas, former Texas attorney general and former justice on the Texas Supreme Court. He earlier served as a Bexar County state district judge.

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John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on March 22, 2022 a Senate judiciary committee hearing
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson called former President George W. Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as “war criminals in a legal filing.”
Half-True
By Madison Czopek • March 24, 2022
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on February 14, 2022 a tweet
"100,000 Americans died of an overdose in a single year."
True
By Nusaiba Mizan • February 21, 2022
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on October 14, 2020 a tweet
Says Democratic senators were missing “masks” as they huddled close together at the Judiciary Committee hearing for Amy Coney Barrett.
False
By Samantha Putterman • October 14, 2020
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on September 12, 2020 an advertisement
Says he “strongly supports legalization for Dreamers.”
Half-True
By Brandon Mulder • October 3, 2020
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on July 9, 2020 an interview
Says “no one under the age of 20 has died of the coronavirus. We still don’t know whether children can get it and transmit it to others.”
False
By Madlin Mekelburg • July 10, 2020
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on June 11, 2020 an interview
The United States has not completed a “top-to-bottom review of our criminal justice system at the national level since 1965.”
True
By Taylor Goldenstein • July 2, 2020
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on March 18, 2020 a press conference
“China is to blame because the culture where people eat bats and snakes and dogs and things like that, these viruses are transmitted from the animal to the people and that's why China has been the source of a lot of these viruses like SARS, like MERS, the Swine Flu and now the coronavirus.”
False
By Madlin Mekelburg • March 26, 2020
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on July 22, 2019 an advertisement
Says Royce West stood with Wendy Davis "to support painful late-term abortions."
Half-True
By Madlin Mekelburg • August 8, 2019
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on June 11, 2019 a tweet
"Texas remains one of the most severely impacted states from drug trafficking. Nearly 3,000 Texans died from drug related deaths in 2017 – with half being overdoses involving opioids."
Half-True
By Madlin Mekelburg • June 21, 2019
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on September 22, 2017 a letter to a constituent
Says that under the Obamacare law, health insurance "premiums have increased by more than 105 percent since" 2013.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 4, 2017
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on March 9, 2017 a U.S. Senate floor speech
Texas "spent close to a third of its budget on Medicaid last year, a third of all state spending."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 28, 2017
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on November 22, 2016 a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson
Says the Department of Homeland Security didn't request any hours of aerial surveillance for the U.S.-Mexico border from the Department of Defense for 2017.
Mostly False
By Fauzeya Rahman • January 31, 2017
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on May 23, 2016 Senate floor remarks
"Vietnamese is the third most commonly spoken language in Texas."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 26, 2016
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on August 3, 2015 a tweet
"In FY 2014 Planned Parenthood performed 327,653 abortions while receiving $528 million from taxpayers, in violation" of "the Hyde amendment."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • August 7, 2015
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on January 27, 2015 a Senate floor speech
More "than 80 percent of sex trafficking victims in America are U.S. citizens."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 30, 2015
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on January 27, 2015 a press conference
The Super Bowl has "one of the highest levels of human sex trafficking activity of any event in the country."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • January 29, 2015
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on January 20, 2015 a post on his U.S. Senate website
The Texas leg of the Keystone pipeline "has already created 4,800 jobs in just the year it's been up and running."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • January 23, 2015
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on September 7, 2014 an interview for "Inside Texas Politics" on WFAA-TV, Channel 8, in Dallas
My office sends federal "money back every year."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 14, 2014
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on January 10, 2014 an online commentary
"25% of human trafficking victims are located in Texas."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • January 29, 2014
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on August 8, 2013 an opinion column.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 71.2 percent of Hispanic registered voters in Texas and over 86 percent of African American registered voters participated in the 2012 elections.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 16, 2013
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Latest Fact-Checks About John Cornyn

David Alameel
David Alameel
stated on June 28, 2014 his speech at the Texas Democratic Party convention
Says John Cornyn dodged the draft during the Vietnam War.
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • July 31, 2014
Steve Stockman
Steve Stockman
stated on January 31, 2014 a campaign email blast
John Cornyn "voted twice in 2013 to back Obama’s amnesty plan."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • February 10, 2014
Steve Stockman
Steve Stockman
stated on January 24, 2014 a Stockman campaign web page
"John Cornyn backed his pal David Dewhurst" for the U.S. Senate over Ted Cruz.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • January 28, 2014
Senate Conservatives Fund
Senate Conservatives Fund
stated on December 9, 2013 as quoted by Politico
"John Cornyn has voted to increase the debt, raise taxes, bail out Wall Street banks and fund Obamacare."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 12, 2013
Veronica Escobar
Veronica Escobar
stated on May 22, 2013 a telephone conference call with reporters.
Says El Paso is the "safest city of our size in the nation."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 30, 2013
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
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