“At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson advocated that “each and every criminal defendant in D.C. Corrections custody should be released.”
Marsha Blackburn
U.S. Senator, R-Tenn.. Claim dated 21 Mar 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
What PolitiFact found
Blackburn’s statement creates an impression that Jackson advocated for releasing incarcerated defendants en masse, and that’s wrong. She cites only part of a ruling by Jackson.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Marsha Blackburn (U.S. Senator, R-Tenn.) made this claim around 21 March 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 22 March 2022, 1 day later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Marsha Blackburn has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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