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“Kari Lake has been appearing at rallies with neo-Nazis," while "two federal juries have found" Katie Hobbs "guilty of racial discrimination.”

PolitiFact says: Lake posed for a photo at one of her campaign rallies with a man identified in news reports as a Nazi sympathizer. Hobbs joined in firing an Arizona Senate employee who successfully sued the Senate for discrimination.

“Mehmet Oz “was a spokesman for a group who wanted to defund the police.”

PolitiFact says: The claim is tied to a group called California Endowment. Oz did one ad for the group, promoting the Affordable Care Act in 2010, not in favor of defunding the police.

“Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Samuel Alito said that the U.S. needs a “domestic supply of infants” to meet the needs of parents seeking to adopt.”

PolitiFact says: The phrase wasn't written by Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Samuel Alito. It appears in the opinion draft as a footnote and came from a 2008 CDC document about adoption data.

“The infant formula shortage was purposely created because Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates invested in artificial breast milk.”

PolitiFact says: There’s no evidence an investment involving Gates and Zuckerberg in an artificial breast milk company is related to the formula shortage.

“Due to U.S. Senate rules, Democrats need "more than a majority ... to codify Roe vs. Wade.”

“Mehmet Oz is “pro-abortion.”

PolitiFact says: Oz supports overturning Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that provides the national right to an abortion. He supports abortion access in cases of rape, incest and if the life of the mother is in danger.

“Paying taxes is optional!!”

PolitiFact says: Federal law dictates who owes taxes, how much is owed and when that amount is due; paying those taxes is mandatory, not optional. This claim is linked to a complex, persistent and unfounded conspiracy theory.

“The Democrats control the Senate, House, and White House. They have the power to make legal abortion the law of the land once and for all.”

PolitiFact says: Passing a bill that would protect abortion access would require 60 Senate votes to end a filibuster from those opposed to abortion. This would require all Democrats to be united, plus the support of several Republicans.

“The Red Cross sells your donated blood to hospitals for $150 and then that hospital charges you thousands for a blood transfusion.”

PolitiFact says: The Red Cross charges hospitals for the blood so that it can cover the collection costs. What hospitals charge patients for transfusions varies, but that figure can be in the thousands of dollars.

“There has never been a leak anything like this” draft of a Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade. “There’s never been a leak of a vote — much less an actual opinion, much less in a case of this significance.”

PolitiFact says: Experts said the public release of a draft majority opinion is unprecedented. Supreme Court leaks happen rarely, but there are times when votes and decisions have been leaked before rulings are publicly announced.

“Tylenol is the #1 cause of acute liver failure in the US with 27% of people dying & kills at least 100,000 per year from its use.”

PolitiFact says: Overdoses of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol and other medications, are related to about 450 deaths per year, per the FDA. That is nowhere near 100,000 — and there's no reason to blame Tylenol alone.

“Amber Heard plagiarized lines from the movie “The Talented Mr. Ripley” in her opening statement during the Johnny Depp libel trial.”

PolitiFact says: Multiple reviews of the proceedings show that Heard did not make the comments attributed to her online.

“Tennessee just banned Plan B and made it a crime punishable by a $50,000 fine to order it.”

PolitiFact says: Tennessee legislation that takes effect in January 2023 imposes restrictions on the dispensing of abortion-inducing pills. It doesn’t address or ban emergency contraceptives like Plan B.

“The state crime lab under Attorney General Josh Kaul "is testing significantly less items than former AG Brad Schimel and is still taking longer to test many categories of key items in comparison to Schimel, including DNA.”

“When the New York State Senate voted to legalize abortion in 1970, 12 Republican senators voted in favor of it.”

PolitiFact says: In 1970, when New York state legalized abortion, 13 Republican state senators voted in favor of it.

“New York leads the U.S. in population loss.”

PolitiFact says: Census data shows that New York’s population declined by 1.58% between July 2020 and July 2021, which is the latest population estimate available. That was the largest percentage loss of any state.

“Says Gov. Tony Evers "wanted to increase your taxes by $1 billion just for heating your homes Instead, Republicans cut your taxes by more than $2 billion.”

“When there is “a noose on a college dorm of a Black student” or a racial slur “on a dormitory building, the odds are overwhelming that a Black student actually did that.”

“Republicans DO NOT want to throw doctors” in jail.”

PolitiFact says: Over a dozen Republican-controlled states have passed abortion laws that permit jail sentences for doctors. 45 Senate Republicans backed a bill that would impose a prison sentence of up to five years.

“The Department of Justice must pursue criminal charges if applicable” against the the Supreme Court draft opinion leaker.”