Supreme Court Scorecard true 0% 26 Checks mostly-true 0% 27 Checks Half True 0% 38 Checks mostly-false 0% 39 Checks false 0% 73 Checks Pants on Fire 0% 21 Checks For more details, see the Principles of PolitiFact All Fact-checks for Supreme Court Donald Trump stated on April 29, 2025 in an interview: “If people come into our country illegally, there’s a different standard” for due process. May 8, 2025 Donald Trump stated on December 27, 2024 in a U.S. Supreme Court brief: On banning TikTok By Amy Sherman, Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Samantha Putterman • January 16, 2025 Charlie Kirk stated on December 8, 2024 in a post on X: The 14th Amendment “has never been challenged at SCOTUS.” December 12, 2024 Viral image stated on June 17, 2024 in an Instagram post: Video shows “fences have been installed around the Supreme Court” in 2024. June 24, 2024 Facebook posts stated on April 25, 2024 in a Facebook post: As of April 24, “there was active military in 360 U.S. cities awaiting a Supreme Court announcement ‘that will rock the world’ and trigger cabal deep state planned protests.” May 1, 2024 Kamala Harris stated on January 22, 2024 in Speech: "After Roe was dismantled, extremists evoked a law from 1849 to stop abortion” in Wisconsin. By Hope Karnopp • January 23, 2024 Ron DeSantis stated on June 29, 2023 in a tweet: Donald Trump is an “affirmative action advocate.” By Louis Jacobson • June 30, 2023 Joe Biden stated on June 10, 2023 in a speech: In the U.S., “a person can be married in the morning and thrown out of a restaurant for being gay in the afternoon.” By Grace Abels, Nuria Diaz Muñoz • June 16, 2023 American Principles Project stated on March 8, 2023 in Campaign ad: At a Wisconsin school, a 12-year-old girl "was transitioned into a boy by school officials without parental consent," and Protasiewicz supports it. By Madeline Heim • March 29, 2023 Janet Protasiewicz stated on March 9, 2023 in TV ad: As a sitting Supreme Court justice, Daniel Kelly recused himself from a case, then “he pocketed $20,000 in contributions” from the plaintiff and family members and “unrecused himself so he could judge the case.” By Laura Schulte • March 24, 2023 Winsome Earle-Sears stated on February 2, 2023 in a radio interview.: Brown v. Board of Education “was never about sending Black children to white schools. It was about parents being able to decide where to send their children to school.” By Warren Fiske • February 22, 2023 Facebook posts stated on January 16, 2023 in a photo on Facebook: “Every single Republican blocked Ketanji Brown Jackson’s SCOTUS appointment.” By Sara Swann • January 17, 2023 Melissa Agard stated on January 3, 2023 in TV interview: "Historically, our spring elections (including for state Supreme Court) have a smaller turnout associated with them." By D.L. Davis • January 10, 2023 Instagram posts stated on September 18, 2022 in a photo: “Supreme Court just voted to ban condoms.” By Sara Swann • September 20, 2022 Facebook posts stated on August 18, 2022 in a TikTok on Facebook: The Supreme Court will put Donald Trump back in office in October By Amy Sherman • August 29, 2022 Facebook posts stated on July 6, 2022 in a Facebook post: “SCOTUS overturned the 2020 election.” July 8, 2022 Instagram posts stated on June 21, 2022 in an Instagram post: "The Supreme Court ruled that border agents can enter anyone’s home within a 100-mile radius of the border without a warrant for any reason and federal courts cannot do anything about it." By Grace Abels • June 30, 2022 Joe Biden stated on June 24, 2022 in a speech: The Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade "made the United States an outlier among developed nations in the world" on abortion rights. June 24, 2022 Tammy Baldwin stated on May 4, 2022 in TV interview: "Our Supreme Court has never taken away a constitutional right." By Madeline Heim • June 3, 2022 X posts stated on May 6, 2022 in a tweet: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni posted a photo of themselves enjoying a $5,135 bottle of wine “as American women despair about abortion rights being taken away from them.” By Samantha Putterman • May 20, 2022 Load More Latest Articles Supreme Court denies review of case by group founded by RFK Jr. against Poynter, Meta • July 1, 2025 Congress could try barring Trump from office under 14th Amendment, but it likely won’t By Caleb McCullough • November 7, 2024 ¿Qué implica el fallo de inmunidad para Donald Trump y, potencialmente, futuros presidentes? By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • July 2, 2024 Was it legal to fly the flag upside-down at Samuel Alito’s house? By Louis Jacobson • May 22, 2024 This Supreme Court case is reshaping LGBTQ+ rights. You probably haven’t heard about it. By Grace Abels • May 20, 2024 At stake in mifepristone case: abortion, FDA’s authority and return to 1873 obscenity law By Sarah Varney • March 25, 2024 U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on removing Donald Trump from ballot. Here’s what to know. By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • February 8, 2024 The Supreme Court ended affirmative action for colleges. Are legacy admissions next to go? • July 7, 2023 Why doesn’t the Supreme Court have a formal code of ethics? By Matthew Crowley • April 13, 2023 Who is Ginni Thomas, and why does the Jan. 6 committee want to talk to her? • September 23, 2022 What Clarence Thomas said about fetal cell lines and COVID-19 vaccines By Andy Nguyen • July 8, 2022 Explaining the Supreme Court immigration ruling on ‘Remain in Mexico’ By Maria Ramirez Uribe • July 7, 2022 In Context: What Sarah Huckabee Sanders said about abortions and classroom safety By Samantha Putterman • June 28, 2022 Five things to know now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade By Julie Rovner, Rachana Pradhan, Victoria Knight • June 27, 2022 Fact-checking 5 claims in the final Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade By Amy Sherman, Jon Greenberg • June 24, 2022 Is it legal to protest outside justices’ homes? The law suggests no By Sara Swann • May 13, 2022 How a rumor about Justice Alito in ‘hiding’ jumped to primetime TV By Bill McCarthy • May 11, 2022 Why Democrats’ control of the White House and Congress isn’t enough to pass law protecting abortion • May 10, 2022 Ask PolitiFact: What would the end of Roe mean for access to abortion pill? By Amy Sherman • May 6, 2022 Satanic Temple’s fight over abortion rights, Roe v Wade so far is unsuccessful • May 5, 2022 Latest promises about Supreme Court Joe Biden Work to codify Roe v. Wade Joe Biden made efforts to protect abortion, but Congress did not codify access | November 26, 2024 Joe Biden Nominate the first Black woman to U.S. Supreme Court Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court | April 7, 2022 Joe Biden Create a bipartisan commission to consider reforms to the Supreme Court Biden forms commission to study changing Supreme Court | April 15, 2021 Donald Trump Nominate someone from his list of justices to replace Antonin Scalia Trump nominates Neil Gorsuch to fill empty Supreme Court seat left by Scalia | February 1, 2017 Barack Obama Work to overturn Ledbetter vs. Goodyear Obama signs Ledbetter Act | January 29, 2009 Latest promises about Supreme Court
Joe Biden Work to codify Roe v. Wade Joe Biden made efforts to protect abortion, but Congress did not codify access | November 26, 2024
Joe Biden Nominate the first Black woman to U.S. Supreme Court Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court | April 7, 2022
Joe Biden Create a bipartisan commission to consider reforms to the Supreme Court Biden forms commission to study changing Supreme Court | April 15, 2021
Donald Trump Nominate someone from his list of justices to replace Antonin Scalia Trump nominates Neil Gorsuch to fill empty Supreme Court seat left by Scalia | February 1, 2017
