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  • 2019-12-30 (xsd:date)
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  • Did US Supreme Court 'End Pelosi’s Reign of Terror' with Impeachment Ruling? (en)
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  • A blog post that went viral in December 2019 created the false impression that the U.S. Supreme Court had issued a landmark decision favoring President Donald Trump in ongoing impeachment proceedings against him, thereby dealing a blow to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The post, Supreme Court Ends Pelosi’s Reign of Terror with Landmark Decision on Impeachment, was published on Dec. 17, 2019, and reported that Nancy Pelosi just got spanked by the Supreme Court in a new impeachment ruling. However, the story did not support what the headline proclaimed. The Supreme Court has issued no such ruling on ongoing impeachment proceedings. In mid-December 2019, the court agreed to review three separate lower-court rulings against the president that upheld subpoenas from House of Representatives committees seeking Trump's financial records, and a decision that ordered Trump's accounting firm to turn over records to prosecutors in New York City. The cases will not be heard until March 2020, thus no ruling has yet been issued. As the law blog SCOTUSblog noted of the issue: Trump is facing impeachment proceedings over allegations that he attempted to leverage his public office for personal gain in a scheme to extract damaging information from Ukraine on a potential 2020 electoral rival by withholding military aid to that country. The House voted to impeach Trump on Dec. 18, 2019, on a party-line vote, for abuse of power and obstructing Congress. Because the headline of the story falsely claims that the Supreme Court had ruled against Pelosi (and in favor of Trump) on impeachment-related cases when it did not, we are rating this claim False. (en)
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