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Supreme Court

Scorecard

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0% 26 Checks
mostly true
0% 27 Checks
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0% 38 Checks
mostly false
0% 39 Checks
false
0% 73 Checks
Pants on Fire
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All Fact-checks for Supreme Court

Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 29, 2025 an interview:
“If people come into our country illegally, there’s a different standard” for due process.
False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • May 8, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on December 27, 2024 a U.S. Supreme Court brief:
On banning TikTok
Full Flop
By Amy Sherman, Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Samantha Putterman • January 16, 2025
Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk
stated on December 8, 2024 a post on X:
The 14th Amendment “has never been challenged at SCOTUS.”
False
By Madison Czopek • December 12, 2024
Viral image
Viral image
stated on June 17, 2024 an Instagram post:
Video shows “fences have been installed around the Supreme Court” in 2024.
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • June 24, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 25, 2024 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.”
Pants on Fire!
By Ciara O'Rourke • May 1, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on January 22, 2024 Speech:
"After Roe was dismantled, extremists evoked a law from 1849 to stop abortion” in Wisconsin.
False
By Hope Karnopp • January 23, 2024
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 29, 2023 a tweet:
Donald Trump is an “affirmative action advocate.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson, Jeff Cercone • June 30, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 10, 2023 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.”
Mostly True
By Grace Abels, Nuria Diaz Muñoz • June 16, 2023
American Principles Project
American Principles Project
stated on March 8, 2023 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.
Pants on Fire!
By Madeline Heim • March 29, 2023
Janet Protasiewicz
Janet Protasiewicz
stated on March 9, 2023 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.”
Half-True
By Laura Schulte • March 24, 2023
Winsome Earle-Sears
Winsome Earle-Sears
stated on February 2, 2023 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.”
False
By Warren Fiske • February 22, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 16, 2023 a photo on Facebook:
“Every single Republican blocked Ketanji Brown Jackson’s SCOTUS appointment.”
False
By Sara Swann • January 17, 2023
Melissa Agard
Melissa Agard
stated on January 3, 2023 TV interview:
"Historically, our spring elections (including for state Supreme Court) have a smaller turnout associated with them."
True
By D.L. Davis • January 10, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on September 18, 2022 a photo:
“Supreme Court just voted to ban condoms.”
False
By Sara Swann • September 20, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 18, 2022 a TikTok on Facebook:
The Supreme Court will put Donald Trump back in office in October
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • August 29, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 6, 2022 a Facebook post:
“SCOTUS overturned the 2020 election.”
Pants on Fire!
By Ciara O'Rourke • July 8, 2022
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on June 21, 2022 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."
Mostly False
By Grace Abels • June 30, 2022
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 24, 2022 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.
Mostly True
By Madison Czopek, Tom Kertscher • June 24, 2022
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on May 4, 2022 TV interview:
"Our Supreme Court has never taken away a constitutional right."
False
By Madeline Heim • June 3, 2022
X posts
X posts
stated on May 6, 2022 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.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • May 20, 2022
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Latest promises about Supreme Court

Joe Biden
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
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
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
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
Barack Obama
Work to overturn Ledbetter vs. Goodyear
Obama signs Ledbetter Act | January 29, 2009
Latest promises about Supreme Court