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The push by Assembly Democrats seeking Americans with Disabilities Act accommodations for a lawmaker were timed to make Vos look bad as he became president "of the nation’s largest bipartisan organization called the National Conference of State Legislatures."  

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, August 30th, 2019

Republicans "are advancing federal judges who won't even say that Brown vs. Board of Education was properly decided."

— PunditFact on Thursday, July 25th, 2019

Says Robert Mueller "didn’t follow the special counsel regulations. It clearly says write a confidential report about decisions reached. Nowhere in here does it say write a report about decisions that were not reached."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, July 24th, 2019

"In fact, ‘high Crimes and Misdemeanors’ is not defined in the Constitution and does not require corresponding statutory charges. The context implies conduct that violates the public trust—and that view is echoed by the Framers of the Constitution and early American scholars."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, May 29th, 2019

In Florida, "it’s illegal for mayors to even bring up gun reform for discussion."

— PolitiFact National on Monday, May 20th, 2019

"When comparing state by state, the data clearly demonstrates that over 20 other states with (Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs) are still substantially worse off than Missouri in terms of curbing the effects of opioid abuse."

— PolitiFact Missouri on Thursday, May 2nd, 2019

The Russia investigation "was a coup. This was an attempted overthrow of the United States government."

— PolitiFact National on Monday, April 29th, 2019

For the first time in U.S. history, a one-year-old appears in court as a defendant.

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Friday, April 26th, 2019

"Every county in the state of Texas has a veterans court."

— PolitiFact Missouri on Thursday, April 25th, 2019

During her tenure as county attorney in Minnesota, "there was a 65 percent decrease in incarceration of African-Americans."

— PolitiFact National on Friday, March 22nd, 2019

Says Paul Manafort’s sentencing judge, Amy Berman Jackson, "conceded that there was absolutely no evidence of any Russian collusion in this case. So that makes two courts. Two courts have ruled no evidence of any collusion with any Russians."

— PolitiFact National on Thursday, March 14th, 2019

When Congress sought documents from President Barack Obama, the White House "didn’t do anything. They didn’t give one letter of the request. Many requests were made. They didn’t give a letter."

— PolitiFact National on Friday, March 8th, 2019

"#MichaelCohen: Convicted of lying to Congress re: Russia investigation … #ElliottAbrams: Convicted of lying to Congress re: arming Contra death squads"

— PolitiFact National on Friday, March 1st, 2019

"80 percent of impeachments in Missouri have been against judges."

— PolitiFact Missouri on Monday, February 25th, 2019

On directing the attorney general to withdraw Wisconsin from pre-existing conditions lawsuit.

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, January 25th, 2019

"Municipalities are now required to have two or more polling locations opened 24-hours a day, two weeks before any election."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Tuesday, January 15th, 2019

In the lame-duck session, "no power was taken away from the governor. Power was not taken away from the attorney general."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, January 10th, 2019

Says 19,000 text messages exchanged between former FBI officials that were "purposely and illegally deleted ... would have explained (the special counsel investigation) hoax."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, December 19th, 2018

"At least three or four of the pieces that are in" in the Republican lame-duck legislation, Scott Walker "has vetoed previously."  

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, December 13th, 2018

On taking major actions in a lame-duck session.

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, December 7th, 2018