Was Kamala Harris’ Debate Anecdote About Abraham Lincoln and the Supreme Court Accurate? "Abraham Lincoln’s party was in charge ... but Honest Abe said, 'it’s not the right thing to do. The American people deserve to make the decision about who will be the next president of the United States. And then that person can select who will serve for a lifetime on the highest court of our land.'"
‘2 Years, 10 Months, 23 Days. The Length of Time Amy Coney Barrett Has Been a Judge.’ Myriad Facebook posts and tweets declared that Amy Coney Barrett had only been a judge for "2 years, 10 months, [and] 23 days."
Does a Potential U.S. Supreme Court Candidate Belong to a Group That Inspired ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’? Judge Amy Coney Barrett has been criticized over her links to a religious sect that refers to its female leaders as "handmaidens."
‘Supreme Court Can Extend Trump’s Term By Up To 3 Years If He’s Acquitted In The Senate’ Facebook Share A known purveyor of phony news articles put out a story about a purported impeachment clause that was shared thousands of times.
Did the Supreme Court Rule 5-4 Against Swearing in on the Qur’an? On June 11 2019, a Facebook user shared the following text-based status update (archived here), claiming the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against the use of the Qur’an for swearing oaths: Right off the bat, the format of the post was a scourge to fact-checking sites. Text against a colorful background, rarely if ever accompanied by […]
Did the Supreme Court Make Voting More Difficult in a Key Battleground State? As the 2018 midterms approached in the United States, the national conversation turned more and more toward the right to vote — and whether all Americans are truly able to exercise that right. The conversation took a new turn just weeks before the November 6th election, when the Supreme Court declined to overturn a controversial […]
Was Brett Kavanaugh’s Home Vandalized? In early October 2018, the usual purveyors and pushers of disinformation were anxious to take advantage of the controversy surrounding Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to ride the ad revenue wave from whatever satire or clickbait they could think up. Most of that centered around various outlandish rumors surrounding his multiple accusers, but at least […]
Did a Veteran Sex Crimes Prosecutor Say Christine Blasey Ford ‘Has No Case’? October 2018 opened with confusion among the American political set over an investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after multiple women publicly accused him of sexual assault. One woman, California psychology professor and Stanford University researcher Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, appeared during a day-long hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in late September to […]
Did the WSJ Report That a Sex Crimes Prosecutor Was Pulled from a Hearing for Asking Too Many Questions? As the United States debated putting Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court despite multiple assault allegations, rumors began to fly about a hearing the previous day, including a bombshell that purportedly appeared in the Wall Street Journal: WSJ: Mitchell advised Republicans that to continue questioning Kavanaugh she was required by her oath in Arizona to […]
Did Two Men Confess to Assaulting a Woman Accusing a Supreme Court Nominee? On the eve of a scheduled hearing for Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, the California professor who has credibly accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at a party in 1982, what looked like a potential bombshell story appeared on social media: Senate Judiciary Rs release a Kavanaugh investigative summary that includes: -an […]
