“I think the fastest [Supreme Court] justice ever confirmed was 47 days.”
Joe Biden
Democratic presidential nominee. speech. Claim dated 18 Sep 2020.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
What FactCheck.org found
Since 1975, the shortest time from formal nomination to confirmation was 19 days.
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In short
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential nominee) made this claim around 18 September 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 21 September 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
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