“Judge Jackson has a pattern of letting child porn offenders off the hook for their appalling crimes, both as a judge and as a policymaker.”
Josh Hawley
Senator (R-Mo..). in a twitter thread. Claim dated 16 Mar 2022.
Washington Post rated thisThree Pinocchios
What Washington Post found
With selective snips and out-of-context quotes, Hawley attacked the Supreme Court nominee.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Josh Hawley (Senator (R-Mo..)) made this claim around 16 March 2022. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 19 March 2022, 3 days later. Its rating was “Three Pinocchios”.
Josh Hawley has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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