copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: “Amy Coney Barrett has said that a woman should not be able to own property, buy or sell without the permission of her husband or a male relative.” (Facebook posts, 2020-09-26)
Evidence (2021-03-27): Latest Fact-checksAmy Coney Barrett Bloggers stated on March 27, 2021 in a blog post: Says Donald Trump indicted Amy Coney Barrett. Viral image stated on October 12, 2020 in a Facebook post: A fly landed on Amy Coney Barrett’s shoulder during day one of the confirmation hearings Viral image stated on October 13, 2020 in a Facebook post: Says Donald Trump said he nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court because she "is much, much better looking than the women we have had." Facebook posts stated on September 26, 2020 in a Facebook post: "Amy Coney Barrett has said that a woman should not be able to own property, buy or sell without the permission of her husband or a male relative." [...] Facebook posts stated on September 26, 2020 in a Facebook post: "Amy Coney Barrett has said that a woman should not be able to own property, buy or sell without the permission of her husband or a male relative."
Claim: “Amy Coney Barrett has said that a woman should not be able to own property, buy or sell without the permission of her husband or a male relative.” (Facebook posts, 2020-09-26)
Evidence (2022-02-14): Amy Coney was born in 1972 and grew up in Metairie, a mostly white, Republican-leaning suburb of New Orleans. Her father, Mike, was a lawyer for Shell Oil; her mother, Linda, was a high-school French teacher turned homemaker. They had seven children—six girls and a boy—and Amy was the oldest. The Coneys were Catholic but belonged to a group called People of Praise, a close-knit faith community with a charismatic flavor that would have been more familiar to born-again Christians than to most cradle Catholics. In 2018, Mike Coney wrote an essay for his church’s Web site explaining that People of Praise is a covenant community, meaning that members "promise to share life together and to look out for each other in all things material and spiritual." In South Bend, some of Barrett’s children attended the Trinity School, which was established by members of People of Praise; for nearly three years, she sat on the board of Trinity, which also has campuses in Falls Church, Virginia, and in Eagan, Minnesota. (People of Praise was founded in 1971, and is influential in South Bend; nationwide, the group has only about fifteen hundred adult members.)
Claim: “Amy Coney Barrett has said that a woman should not be able to own property, buy or sell without the permission of her husband or a male relative.” (Facebook posts, 2020-09-26)
Evidence (2020-10-14): Judge Amy Coney Barrett faced questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, the second day of her confirmation hearings for the U.S. Supreme Court. [...] Again and again, Amy Coney Barrett insisted to senators on Tuesday that she has no "agenda" on issues like the Affordable Care Act, the future of abortion rights or same-sex marriage, and that she would be nobody's "pawn" if confirmed to the Supreme Court. [...] Barrett has written that she feels that Brown v. Board of Education was a superprecedent.
Claim: “Amy Coney Barrett has said that a woman should not be able to own property, buy or sell without the permission of her husband or a male relative.” (Facebook posts, 2020-09-26)
Evidence (2023-04-05): During oral argument in Dobbs v. Jackson, the Supreme Court case challenging Mississippi’s attempt to prohibit pre-viability abortions, Justice Coney Barrett called the attention of counsel arguing against the Mississippi ban to so-called Safe Haven laws. Here are relevant excerpts from the Dobbs argument transcript: [...] What, I asked in 1997, could these stories of celibacy, contraception, abortion, and infanticide tell us about the right of procreative choice? What, I ask today, could they tell us about the profound and painful question of whether or when a pregnant person may be forbidden or otherwise prevented from terminating a pregnancy? There is no easy answer to this grave and weighty question. Different answers flow from different religious or moral convictions and in different human contexts. But the stories of slavery’s control over procreative liberty speak indirectly to Justice Coney Barrett’s suggestion that some of the difficulty in defining and justifying a constitutional right of abortion choice has been resolved by laws that permit new parents to surrender their infant children for adoption with little fuss or blame.
Claim: “Amy Coney Barrett has said that a woman should not be able to own property, buy or sell without the permission of her husband or a male relative.” (Facebook posts, 2020-09-26)
Evidence (2020-10-13): Barrett, An Originalist, Says Meaning Of Constitution 'Doesn't Change Over Time' [...] It was a bit of a softball coming from Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Barrett had no trouble knocking it out of the park. [...] It is the essence of what Barrett's mentor, the late Justice Antonin Scalia, believed.
Claim: “Amy Coney Barrett has said that a woman should not be able to own property, buy or sell without the permission of her husband or a male relative.” (Facebook posts, 2020-09-26)
Evidence (2020-10-14): Judge Amy Coney Barrett faced a second round of questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, the third day of her confirmation hearings for the U.S. Supreme Court. [...] Barrett was pressed for her views on the precedent set in the case of Griswold v. Connecticut, which protects the right to buy and use contraception for married couples, where she declined to answer and suggested the inquiry was irrelevant. [...] With the help of senators of both parties, Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett laid out a roadmap for overturning the Roe vs. Wade ruling protecting abortion rights and the Brown vs. Board of Education decision outlawing school segregation.
Claim: “Amy Coney Barrett has said that a woman should not be able to own property, buy or sell without the permission of her husband or a male relative.” (Facebook posts, 2020-09-26)
Evidence (2020-09-26): No proof Amy Coney Barrett said a woman needs a man’s permission to own property [...] Widely shared social media posts attacking Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, have fallen short on our Truth-O-Meter. [...] "We have not seen that statement attributed directly to Barrett," said a spokeswoman for the National Women’s Law Center, which opposes Barrett’s nomination and has suggested that adding Barrett to a conservative-leaning court could increase the risk of discrimination against women in property rights and other areas.
Claim: “Amy Coney Barrett has said that a woman should not be able to own property, buy or sell without the permission of her husband or a male relative.” (Facebook posts, 2020-09-26)
Evidence (2020-10-12): Fact check: Amy Barrett never said women shouldn't own property Widely shared social media posts attacking Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, have fallen short on our Truth-O-Meter. [...] "We have not seen that statement attributed directly to Barrett," said a spokeswoman for the National Women’s Law Center, which opposes Barrett’s nomination and has suggested that adding Barrett to a conservative-leaning court could increase the risk of discrimination against women in property rights and other areas.
Claim: “Amy Coney Barrett has said that a woman should not be able to own property, buy or sell without the permission of her husband or a male relative.” (Facebook posts, 2020-09-26)
Evidence (2024-09-27): 2022 also saw the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer, the Court’s most persistent death-penalty skeptic and the historic confirmation of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first African American woman and first federal public defender to serve as a justice on the Court. [...] The decision also produced harsh reactions from legal scholars, who blasted it as "nightmarish" and "an abomination." [...] Several other capital cases that are awaiting Supreme Court decision at the end of 2022 may serve as bellwethers on how far the Court is willing to go to limit defendants’ access to federal review.
Claim: “Amy Coney Barrett has said that a woman should not be able to own property, buy or sell without the permission of her husband or a male relative.” (Facebook posts, 2020-09-26)
Evidence (2021-02-09): Yet, when the pandemic forced New York to temporarily shut down live racing last March, many backstretch workers like Klicey, who took great comfort in their "recession-proof" jobs, suddenly found themselves out of work and on food pantry lines. "Early on it was really difficult for us. My husband was laid off for a few months and I had to stay home with my kids. We lived off our savings but getting food was difficult, but thank god for the food pantry, we got through it." [...] "At the backstretch, we always take care of our own."
Claim: “Amy Coney Barrett has said that a woman should not be able to own property, buy or sell without the permission of her husband or a male relative.” (Facebook posts, 2020-09-26)
Evidence (2024-07-19): After Donald Trump became president in 2017, he appointed two new ultra-conservative justices to the Supreme Court — Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh — emboldening anti-abortion rights activists, policymakers, and right wing, antifeminist judges. [...] Shortly before the 2020 presidential election, staunch feminist Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died. Despite the imminent election he would soon lose, Donald Trump nominated fundamentalist anti-abortion advocate Amy Coney Barrett to fill Ginsburg’s seat. The Republican Senate leadership confirmed Barrett’s nomination in record time, tilting the balance of the court to a 6-3 hard right supermajority with the three Trump appointees.
Claim: “Amy Coney Barrett has said that a woman should not be able to own property, buy or sell without the permission of her husband or a male relative.” (Facebook posts, 2020-09-26)
Evidence (2023-04-10): One evening in December, 2021, Deanna Doss Shrodes had come home from work. The TV was tuned to a news segment about the oral arguments at the Supreme Court for the case that challenged Roe v. Wade. Deanna is a pastor and a director of women’s ministries at a Pentecostal church in Florida. She is opposed to abortion, and was glad that Roe might soon be overturned. But then Amy Coney Barrett asked about "safe haven" laws, which permit a mother who doesn’t want to keep her baby to drop it off anonymously in a deposit box at a hospital or a fire station. Why, Barrett wanted to know, didn’t safe-haven laws remove the burden that was allegedly being imposed upon a woman who couldn’t obtain an abortion? The woman wouldn’t be forced to be a parent, and the baby could be adopted. At this point, Deanna became so upset that she stopped listening. [...] One day, when she was very little, Deanna was playing hide-and-seek with her sister. She wriggled underneath her parents’ bed to hide, and in the darkness she felt something hard and cold, made of metal. She pulled it out from under the bed and saw that it was a box. She opened it, and found a piece of paper with her name on it. The language on the paper was confusing, but she understood that it said that Melanie Lynn Alley, born in 1966, had become Deanna Lynn Doss.
Claim: “Amy Coney Barrett has said that a woman should not be able to own property, buy or sell without the permission of her husband or a male relative.” (Facebook posts, 2020-09-26)
Evidence (2020-10-15): In a testy line of questioning on protections for LGBT Americans, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., pressed Barrett to say whether she agreed that Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage, was a sound decision. While Barrett would say Brown v. Board of Education, which deemed segregation in public schools unconstitutional, and Loving v. Virginia, which did the same for laws banning interracial marriage, were clearly-established precedents, she wouldn’t explicitly say the same about Obergefell. [...] On Tuesday, Barrett apologized to the LGBT community for using the term "sexual preference" instead of "sexual orientation."
Claim: “Amy Coney Barrett has said that a woman should not be able to own property, buy or sell without the permission of her husband or a male relative.” (Facebook posts, 2020-09-26)
Evidence (2004-05-03): If I offend you I'm sorry, but I just belive this has to be said. [...] Strong statement, but true. Have a great weekend. [...] Jack and Joan Barrett,
Claim: “Amy Coney Barrett has said that a woman should not be able to own property, buy or sell without the permission of her husband or a male relative.” (Facebook posts, 2020-09-26)
Evidence (2020-10-27): There is no public record, documentation, or media coverage quoting Barrett as having said that women should not be able to own, buy, or sell property without the permission of their husband or male relative. In the wake of the September 2020 death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal icon described as a pioneer for women’s rights, U.S. President Donald Trump rushed to fill her vacant Supreme Court seat less than two months shy of the 2020 general election. Trump's Sept. 26 nomination of conservative-leaning Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a Catholic professor of law at the University of Notre Dame who sat on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, sparked controversy and ignited the internet rumor mills. Among those rumors was the claim that 48-year-old Barrett (who is inexplicably referred to as "Amy Barrett Cohen" in memes such as the one below) said women should not be able to own, buy or sell property without the permission of their husband or male relative.
Claim: “Amy Coney Barrett has said that a woman should not be able to own property, buy or sell without the permission of her husband or a male relative.” (Facebook posts, 2020-09-26)
Evidence (2017-03-09): After over a decade of distinguished service on the DC Circuit, she was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Clinton, and confirmed by the Senate, 96 to 3. The kind of vote that you’d think these days was a misprint. In her years on the court, she had issued as I’ve said, countless great opinions. But I want to focus on three. Two of them, unfortunately, dissents, that have brought into sharper focus her transformational contributions to Women’s equality. [...] Drawing on a wealth of historical and sociological knowledge, she compared those explanations to reasons that bar associations once gave to exclude women from the practice of law. Or police departments once offered to exclude women from their ranks. She refused to accept any explanation based on what most women would prefer. Most men would also prefer to not be subjected to the physical rigors of VMI. A point she said, on which, even our descending colleague, Justice Scalia, might agree.
Claim: “Amy Coney Barrett has said that a woman should not be able to own property, buy or sell without the permission of her husband or a male relative.” (Facebook posts, 2020-09-26)
Evidence (2024-06-21): The conservative majority, led by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, said that while the plaintiff, L.A. civil rights attorney Sandra Muñoz, does have a fundamental right to marriage, she had failed to establish that her right extends to living with her husband in the U.S. "In fact, Congress’s longstanding regulation of spousal immigration — including through bars on admissibility — cuts the other way," Barrett said, so "a citizen does not have a fundamental liberty interest in her noncitizen spouse being admitted to the country." [...] Barrett wrote that while Congress can use its authority over immigration to prioritize family unity, that is "a matter of legislative grace." She said the 9th Circuit Court, based in San Francisco, stood alone in having embraced that as an "asserted right."
Claim: “Amy Coney Barrett has said that a woman should not be able to own property, buy or sell without the permission of her husband or a male relative.” (Facebook posts, 2020-09-26)
Evidence (2020-10-29): Raniere’s sentencing coincides with the entrance of another postfeminist horseman in the form of Amy Coney Barrett, the ultraconservative judge Donald Trump nominated to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. She was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice on October 26, the apotheosis of Senator Mitch McConnell’s campaign to reinvent the American judiciary as a conservative political engine. In her short time as an appeals court judge, Coney Barrett has argued for expanding gun rights and restricting abortion rights, couching all of her contradictory convictions in that great conservative judicial fantasy: total adherence to the original intent of the framers of the Constitution. Since the outset, when her law professor at Notre Dame secured her a clerkship with Justice Antonin Scalia, Coney Barrett’s career has been paved by men who saw her as a useful political tool. In a profile in the New York Times, Elizabeth Dias writes how Coney Barrett benefitted from a Republican initiative "to cultivate female and minority candidates for the courts to help counter the perception that the party was interested mainly in promoting white men."
Claim: “Amy Coney Barrett has said that a woman should not be able to own property, buy or sell without the permission of her husband or a male relative.” (Facebook posts, 2020-09-26)
Evidence (2023-10-11): If Americans had heard of Leo at all, it was for his role in building the conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court. He drew up the lists of potential justices that Donald Trump released during the 2016 campaign. He advised Trump on the nominations of Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. Before that, he’d helped pick or confirm the court’s three other conservative justices — Clarence Thomas, John Roberts and Samuel Alito. But the guests who gathered that night under a tent in Leo’s backyard included key players in a less-understood effort, one aimed at transforming the entire judiciary. [...] The judges were in Maine for a weeklong, all-expenses-paid conference hosted by George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, a hub for steeping young lawyers, judges and state attorneys general in a free-market, anti-regulation agenda. The leaders of the law school were at the party, and they also were indebted to Leo. He had secured the Scalia family’s blessing and brokered $30 million in donations to rename the school. It is home to the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State, named after the George H.W. Bush White House counsel who died this May. Gray was at Leo’s party, too. (A spokesperson for GMU confirmed the details of the week’s events.)
Claim: “Amy Coney Barrett has said that a woman should not be able to own property, buy or sell without the permission of her husband or a male relative.” (Facebook posts, 2020-09-26)
Evidence (2020-10-25): What we know from Amy Coney Barrett's own words is very troubling. [...] The nomination of Amy Coney Barrett is truly historic. This is the most openly pro-life judicial nominee to the Supreme Court in my lifetime. This is an individual who has been open in her criticism of that illegitimate decision Roe v. Wade. [...] Barrett's far-right, out-of-the-mainstream views for generations.
Claim: “Amy Coney Barrett has said that a woman should not be able to own property, buy or sell without the permission of her husband or a male relative.” (Facebook posts, 2020-09-26)
Evidence (2022-09-15): Meanwhile, instances of mass shootings, school shootings, the sending of child services to the homes of parents of LGBTQ children, and the rollback of legal abortion even in some cases of rape, incest, and the health of the mother are handing people on the left daily, concrete losses of rights in an equally personal and visceral manner. [...] With stakes so high, democracy must be curtailed to save Christianity, White people, and men or, in a softer version, the Christian-European heritage that has made America great. [...] Eric Ward, the executive director of the Western States Center, explains this best in an interview I recommend in its entirety:
Claim: “Amy Coney Barrett has said that a woman should not be able to own property, buy or sell without the permission of her husband or a male relative.” (Facebook posts, 2020-09-26)
Evidence (2024-06-10): Even a noted skeptic of constitutional protections for economic liberty under the federal Constitution, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, has recognized the validity of St. Joseph Abbey. In Countering the Majoritarian Difficulty, then-Professor Barrett wrote that "modern courts have occasionally stretched even the existing rationality test too far. For example, it is indeed difficult to see the connection between safe casket-making and a funeral home director’s license."[67] She opined: "A rational basis test ought not mean that courts are obliged to accept explanations that beggar all belief."[68] St. Joseph Abbey demonstrates the original law of the 14th Amendment, adapted and applied by federal courts under modern rational basis precedent, can provide at least a necessary minimum check on government laws that abridge the right to earn an honest living. [...] [20] Id. at 122 (Bradley, J., dissenting). [...] [67] Amy Coney Barrett, Countering the Majoritarian Difficulty, 32 Const. Comment. 61, 71 (2017).
Claim: “Antifa is warning that tonight they're moving out of the cities - and into residential areas to 'take what's ours.'” (Facebook posts, 2020-05-31)
Evidence (2020-05-31): A Facebook post includes a screenshot to a tweet from a suspended account called "ANTIFA America" that claims the left-wing movement is moving Black Lives Matter protests to residential areas. There is no evidence to support the post. Antifa is a broad, loosely affiliated coalition of left-wing anti-fascist activists. It has no leaders and is organized into autonomous local groups. We could find no tweets from local antifa cells or local news reports about protests moving into residential areas on May 31, the day the post was made. It is still unclear to what extent the movement is involved in the demonstrations.
Claim: “Antifa is warning that tonight they're moving out of the cities - and into residential areas to 'take what's ours.'” (Facebook posts, 2020-05-31)
Evidence (2020-05-31): A Facebook post published May 31 shows a screenshot of a tweet from a now-suspended account called "ANTIFA America." The tweet claimed the anti-fascist protest movement planned to move into white residential areas to continue protesting the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody after a white officer knelt on his neck. "Antifa is warning that tonight they're moving out of the cities — and into residential areas to 'take what's ours,’" reads the caption on the Facebook post, which was published by a page called U.S. Law Enforcement. "Law enforcement across the country on high alert." [...] We checked the Twitter accounts for local antifa cells in New York City, Atlanta, Minneapolis and Philadelphia. None of them have tweeted about "moving out of the cities and into residential areas," as the Facebook post claims. We could find no news reports about antifa-led protests in residential areas on the evening of May 31.
Claim: “Antifa is warning that tonight they're moving out of the cities - and into residential areas to 'take what's ours.'” (Facebook posts, 2020-05-31)
Evidence (2023-09-19): A tweet shared widely online during the protests sparked by the death of George Floyd — espousing a plan to bring violence to "residential areas… the white hoods" — was made to appear to be from antifa, the anti-fascist coalition. But the account behind the tweet was actually linked to a white nationalist group, according to Twitter. [...] "ALERT," the May 31 tweet from "@ANTIFA_US" read. "Tonight’s the night, Comrades." [...] "Tonight… we move into the residential areas… the white hoods…. and we take what’s ours," the tweet declared. It also used the misspelled hashtag "#BlacklivesMaters."