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Steve Robinson stated on June 05, 2026 in Fox News “The Ingraham Angle”:

Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Graham Planter’s “oyster business (is) totally fake.”

By Ben Brasch• June 16, 2026

Graham Platner stated on June 09, 2026 in a primary night speech:

Sen. Susan Collins votes “with Donald Trump 95% of the time.”

By Amy Sherman• June 10, 2026

Pine Tree Results PAC stated on April 26, 2026 in an ad:

“Graham Platner blames Maine’s women for getting raped because he says they get f----- up drunk"

By Amy Sherman• April 29, 2026

Bloggers stated on July 01, 2014 in various posts on the Internet:

"Justice John Roberts Signed Off On Obama’s Arrest For Treason."

By Louis Jacobson• July 9, 2014

Daniel Kelly stated on March 08, 2020 in a TV interview:

Says a Marquette professor called him a "maverick" and found no correlation between his opinions and conservative background.

By Haley BeMiller• March 27, 2020

Joe Biden stated on August 09, 2023 in an interview with the Weather Channel:

“I’ve already” declared a national climate emergency

By Louis Jacobson• August 17, 2023

Roy Moore stated on September 21, 2017 in a debate:

DACA was "a mere memo from the Department of Homeland security under Barack Obama, which violated the laws."

By Joshua Gillin, Miriam Valverde• September 22, 2017

Anderson Clayton stated on May 10, 2024 in a social media post:

“Justice Paul Newby is out here removing judges who were elected to their positions by the voters of North Carolina!!!”

By Paul Specht• June 3, 2024

Sean Hannity stated on January 27, 2022 in a radio show segment:

“There's never been a president (before Joe Biden) that has made race and gender the defining factor” for a Supreme Court nomination.

By Bill McCarthy• January 28, 2022

Michael Screnock stated on January 29, 2018 in a radio ad:

Says Tim Burns and Rebecca Dallet "have openly criticized laws signed by Governor Walker that they disagree with and are campaigning as activists who will implement their policies from the bench."

By Tom Kertscher• February 14, 2018

Janet Protasiewicz stated on March 09, 2023 in TV ad:

As a sitting Supreme Court justice, Daniel Kelly recused himself from a case, then “he pocketed $20,000 in contributions” from the plaintiff and family members and “unrecused himself so he could judge the case.”

By Laura Schulte• March 24, 2023

Viral image stated on September 20, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says John F. Kennedy said, "If a Supreme Court Justice died one day before the election, it would be more Constitutional to indefinitely postpone the election than postpone the confirmation a single day."

By Ciara O'Rourke• September 21, 2020

Sheldon Whitehouse stated on September 06, 2019 in an op-ed:

"One unnamed donor gave $17 million to the Leo-affiliated Judicial Crisis Network to block the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland and to support Gorsuch; then a donor — perhaps the same one — gave another $17 million to prop up Kavanaugh."

By John Kruzel• September 11, 2019

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated on April 01, 2024 in an interview on CNN:

“President Biden is the first candidate in history, the first president in history, that has used the federal agencies to censor political speech ... to censor his opponent."

By Amy Sherman• April 5, 2024

Instagram posts stated on February 29, 2024 in an Instagram post:

“The ‘Judge’ who took Trump off the ballot in Illinois is a traffic court judge.”

By Loreben Tuquero• March 8, 2024

Jeb Bush stated on January 24, 2016 in a post on Medium:

"My two appointments to the Florida Supreme Court, Raul Cantero and Kenneth Bell, have earned reputations as its most consistent conservatives."

By Louis Jacobson• February 10, 2016

GOP Daily Brief stated on November 23, 2020 in a story:

“Supreme Court Shakes Up 2020 Election, Assigns Conservatives To Swing State Circuit Courts.”

By Noah Y. Kim• December 2, 2020

American Principles Project stated on March 08, 2023 in Campaign ad:

At a Wisconsin school, a 12-year-old girl "was transitioned into a boy by school officials without parental consent," and Protasiewicz supports it.

By Madeline Heim• March 29, 2023

Rick Green stated on March 25, 2010 in a YouTube video:

"When you look at the nearly 150 men and women who have served us on the Texas Supreme Court, more than half of them had zero prior judicial experience."

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms• April 16, 2010

Newt Gingrich stated on December 18, 2011 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":

In a watershed 1958 decision, "the Warren court asserted by itself that the Supreme Court was supreme over the president and the Congress."

By Louis Jacobson• December 20, 2011

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