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COMMENTARY BY Jonathan Butcher@JM Butcher / July 17, 2023 Read more at https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/07/17/some-supreme-court-justices-have-slippery-handle-facts/ When Supreme Court justices get basic facts wrong in their opinions, are they bending the facts to fit their arguments? Look at the case of two liberal justices’ dissents when the court struck down racial preferences in college admissions. Pictured: Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown…
The U.S. Supreme Court is finished for the term, but questions about accuracy should follow some justices into the next session in October. For example: Was Justice Sonia Sotomayor correct in her description of a key historical event in a recent dissenting opinion or did she obscure details to suit her purposes? And with the revelation that her colleague, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, incorrectly cited research findings in a dissent, Americans are right to ask whether the justices bend facts to fit their arguments.