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Rick Perry stated on January 14, 2010 in a Republican gubernatorial debate:

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison "voted to continue Roe v. Wade."

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms• January 27, 2010

Hillary Clinton stated on June 04, 2015 in a speech:

"Former Gov. Rick Perry signed a law that a federal court said was actually written with the purpose of discriminating against minority voters."

By Keely Herring, Linda Qiu• June 9, 2015

Barack Obama stated on December 13, 2010 in a television interview:

"When Social Security was passed, there were all kinds of lawsuits," just as there have been in the legal battle over the new health care law.

By Louis Jacobson• December 15, 2010

Ted Cruz stated on December 05, 2015 in a speech at the Rising Tide Summit in Cedar Rapids, Iowa:

"The Democrats in the Senate last year introduced a constitutional amendment to repeal the free speech protections of the First Amendment."

By Jason Noble• December 22, 2015

Barack Obama stated on April 02, 2012 in a Rose Garden press conference:

If the Supreme Court throws out the federal health care law, it "would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress."

By Molly Moorhead• April 4, 2012

Greg Abbott stated on August 31, 2022 in a campaign event:

Three court rulings since May 2022 “have made it clear that it is unconstitutional to ban someone between the ages of 18 and 20 from being able to buy an AR.”

By Nusaiba Mizan• September 21, 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

Josh Hawley stated on January 06, 2021 in a U.S. Senate speech:

“Last year, Pennsylvania elected officials passed a whole new law that allows universal mail-in balloting, and did it irregardless of what the Pennsylvania Constitution said.”

By Amy Sherman• January 8, 2021

Jeb Bush stated on March 30, 2015 in an interview with Hugh Hewitt:

"Florida has a law like (Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act)."

By Katie Sanders, Amy Sherman• March 31, 2015

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee stated on September 22, 2022 in an ad:

Adam Laxalt “would let Nevada and other states ban abortion with zero exceptions.”

By Tom Kertscher• October 10, 2022

Occupy Democrats stated on October 15, 2018 in a post on Facebook:

"The Postal Service only gives tribal residents PO boxes. The Republican-controlled Supreme Court just said it’s totally okay for North Dakota to demand that ONLY residents with street addresses can vote. Native Americans were the last to get the right to vote, and now they are the first to lose it."

By Tessa Weinberg• October 23, 2018

Ted Cruz stated on October 26, 2016 in a rally for a Colorado U.S. Senate nominee:

"There is long historical precedent for a Supreme Court with fewer justices."

By Bobby Cervantes• November 23, 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

Instagram posts stated on June 21, 2022 in an Instagram post:

"The Supreme Court ruled that border agents can enter anyone’s home within a 100-mile radius of the border without a warrant for any reason and federal courts cannot do anything about it."

By Grace Abels• June 30, 2022

Kat Cammack stated on July 21, 2022 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives:

“In no way, shape, or form is access to contraception limited or at risk of being limited.”

By Julie Rovner• August 4, 2022

Charles Schumer stated on January 21, 2010 in a press conference:

"With a stroke of a pen, the (U.S. Supreme Court) decided to overrule the 100-year-old ban on corporate expenditures."

By Angie Drobnic Holan• January 22, 2010

Joe Lieberman stated on September 10, 2013 in a discussion on CNN's "Crossfire":

President Barack Obama "had the legal authority" to strike Syria without a vote from Congress.

By Jon Greenberg• September 12, 2013

Greater Wisconsin Committee stated on March 30, 2011 in a television ad:

Says David Prosser = Scott Walker.

By Tom Kertscher• March 31, 2011

National Rifle Association stated on September 04, 2012 in an anti-Nelson mailer:

Bill Nelson voted to confirm Sonia Sotomayor, "who signed a Supreme Court opinion saying Americans do not have an individual right to own firearms."

By Katie Sanders• September 26, 2012

Arlen Specter stated on April 21, 2010 in an interview on MSNBC's Daily Rundown:

"Congress can tell [the Supreme Court] which cases they ought to hear. We have that authority."

By Catharine Richert• April 29, 2010

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