Marsha Blackburn

U.S. senator, R-Tenn.. 3 claims checked by other fact-checking organisations, from 2022 to 2022. The ratings are theirs, in their own words.

Checked by PolitiFact22 Mar 2022United States Health

Marsha Blackburn, U.S. Senator, R-Tenn.

“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.”

PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False

PolitiFact says: 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.

Checked by PolitiFact22 Mar 2022United States

Marsha Blackburn, U.S. senator, R-Tenn.

“Ketanji Brown Jackson "gave a lecture talking about critical race theory as one of the components to consider when you are making decisions on the bench.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: Jackson said that sentencing policy is interesting on an intellectual level because it “melds together myriad types of law,” as well as critical race theory, negotiations and contracts.

Checked by FactCheck.org22 Mar 2022United States Crime and security

Marsha Blackburn, U.S. Senator

“Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson used her "time and talent ... to provide free legal services to help terrorists get out of Gitmo and go back to the fight.”

FactCheck.org rated this: We Provide the Facts

FactCheck.org says: Jackson was a federal public defender on four cases, in which the men were not convicted, and continued to represent one man when she worked for a private firm.