{"id":1208805,"date":"2022-01-11T16:49:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1208805"},"modified":"2022-01-11T16:49:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:49:41","slug":"fact-check-was-supreme-court-justice-sonia-sotomayor-recently-pictured-attending-a-dinner-with-democratic-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-was-supreme-court-justice-sonia-sotomayor-recently-pictured-attending-a-dinner-with-democratic-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Was Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Recently Pictured Attending A Dinner With Democratic Leaders?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-was-supreme-court-justice-sonia-sotomayor-recently-pictured-attending-a-dinner-with-democratic-leaders%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1208805&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100050483829963\/posts\/466958174996973\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was recently pictured attending a dinner with Democratic leaders.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While Politico initially identified the woman pictured as Sotomayor, it later issued a correction. The woman pictured is actually Iris Weinshall, not Sotomayor, according to Politico and The Guardian.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Jan. 7 regarding the federal government\u2019s push to require COVID-19 vaccinations for nearly 100 million workers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/supreme-court-justices-biden-vaccine-mandates-oral-arguments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News<\/a> reported. Sotomayor participated in the hearings remotely for unspecified reasons, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/us-law-week\/justice-sotomayor-to-hear-biden-vaccine-argument-remotely\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bloomberg Law<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>An image shared on Facebook claims later that night she attended a dinner, in person, with Democratic leaders at <a href=\"https:\/\/lediplomatedc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Le Diplomate<\/a> in Washington D.C. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/06\/21\/fact-check-supreme-court-cancel-universal-vaccination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did The Supreme Court \u2018Cancel\u2019 Universal Vaccination?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJustice Sotomayor, who participated in yesterday\u2019s SCOTUS arguments remotely from her chambers, seen last night at Le Diplomate with Speaker Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Schumer and Sens. Klobuchar and Durban (sic), per Politico,\u201d reads text included in the Facebook image, which also includes an image of the alleged group at dinner.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook post appears to be based on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2022\/01\/08\/civil-rights-leaders-see-a-turning-point-for-biden-495650\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jan. 8 Politico Playbook<\/a> newsletter that did indeed initially report that Sotomayor was spotted at dinner with the Democratic lawmakers. However, Politico later issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2022\/01\/08\/civil-rights-leaders-see-a-turning-point-for-biden-495650\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">correction<\/a> to its story and clarified that it had mistakenly identified Iris Weinshall, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/news\/2613841\/chuck-schumer-iris-weinshall-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wife<\/a> of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, as Sotomayor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe published an item atop today\u2019s Playbook that erroneously placed Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor dining with Democratic leaders at a Washington restaurant Friday night,\u201d reads the correction. \u201cThe person who sent us the tip and the picture mistook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/news\/2613841\/chuck-schumer-iris-weinshall-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Iris Weinshall<\/a>, wife of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, for the justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other news outlets including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/jan\/09\/politico-sonia-sotomayor-dc-eatery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Guardian<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/politico-playbook-issues-correction-after-botched-justice-sonia-sotomayor-sighting-at-le-diplomate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Daily Beast<\/a> also reported the woman pictured with the group was Weinshall, not Sotomayor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook claims Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was recently pictured attending a dinner with Democratic leaders.Verdict: False While Politico initially identified the woman pictured as Sotomayor, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}