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  • 2016-02-23 (xsd:date)
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  • Sandra Day O'Connor Calls GOP 'Vile Obstructionists'? (en)
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  • In February 2016, a Facebook post that purported to be a quote from Sandra Day O'Connor in which the former Supreme Court justice called the Republican party a group of vile, petulant, hateful obstructionists started going viral: This quote, however, was never uttered by O'Connor. While most fake quotes on the internet are created by fake news web sites, satire Facebook groups or malicious memes, this particular misattributed diatribe was just the result of poor punctuation. The misunderstanding began with the coverage of an interview that Sandra Day O'Connor gave on 18 February 2016. The judge was asked to weigh in on the controversy surrounding the nomination of the next Justice of the Supreme Court, as several Republicans have argued that Antonin Scalia's replacement should be nominated by the winner of the 2016 Presidential election rather than President Obama. O'Connor said that Obama should nominate Scalia's replacement: On 18 February 2016, a portion of the above-quoted article was shared on Facebook along with the user's personal views. Many people mistook the text of this Facebook post as a direct quote from Sandra Day O'Connor, but that wasn't the case. The first sentence in the above-displayed Facebook post is part of O'Connor's quote, pulled from an MSNBC article. The rest of the post is a random person's opinion about the Republican party, and has little to do with the former Supreme Court Justice. For clarification purposes, here's a breakdown of the above-displayed Facebook post: While Sandra Day O'Connor did say that President Obama should nominate the next Supreme Court justice, she did not call the Republican party a group of vile obstructionists for their attempts to prevent Obama from doing so. (en)
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