“President Biden “helped politicize the entire nomination process” by promising as a candidate in 2020 to appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court. Ronald Reagan's promise to appoint a woman “isn't exactly the same.”
What FactCheck.org found
Ronald Reagan pledged at a 1980 campaign event that a woman would fill "one of the first" of his Supreme Court vacancies, saying it’s “time for a woman to sit among our highest jurists.”
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In short
Susan Collins (U.S. Senator) made this claim around 30 January 2022. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 1 February 2022, 2 days later. Its rating was “We Review The Facts”.
Susan Collins has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- abcnews.go.comhttps://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-30-22-sen-dick-durbin-sen/story?id=825542…
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