{"id":1376494,"date":"2022-03-14T17:22:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T21:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1376494"},"modified":"2022-03-14T17:22:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T21:22:24","slug":"fact-check-no-sonia-sotomayor-has-not-been-sentenced-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-no-sonia-sotomayor-has-not-been-sentenced-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: No, Sonia Sotomayor Has Not Been Sentenced To Death"},"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\">22<\/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-no-sonia-sotomayor-has-not-been-sentenced-to-death%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=1376494&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>A post <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/bO4HQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims a military tribunal sentenced Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to death.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence that Sotomayor has been arrested or convicted of any crime. The claim stems from a website that features \u201chumor, parody, and satire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The March 10 Facebook post claims Sotomayor was tried before a three-military officer panel at the Guantanamo Bay detention center and was sentenced to death. It alleges the charges brought against her included, \u201cTreason, aiding and abetting the enemy, crimes against humanity, domestic terrorism, falsifying public records, money laundering, bribery, espionage, and sedition.\u201d Her execution date was allegedly set for March 28.<\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence any of this is true. Neither the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Releases\/?Search=Sonia+Sotomayor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Defense<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile\/100064688230749\/search\/?q=Sonia%20Sotomayor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department<\/a> nor the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/news?keys=Sonia+Sotomayor&#038;items_per_page=25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Justice<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile\/100064654872564\/search\/?q=Sonia%20Sotomayor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department<\/a> has issued a press release about the justice facing criminal charges or posted about the alleged sentencing on their social media accounts. There is likewise no mention of Sotomayor facing legal trouble on the Supreme Court\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/search.aspx?Search=Sotomayor+arrested&#038;type=Site\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The text of the March 10 Facebook post originated with a March 1o <a href=\"https:\/\/realrawnews.com\/2022\/03\/military-tribunal-sentences-sonia-sotomayor-to-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> published by Real Raw News, a site that openly states on its \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/realrawnews.com\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">about us<\/a>\u201d page that it \u201ccontains humor, parody, and satire.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/01\/11\/fact-check-sotomayor-dinner-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Was Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Recently Pictured Attending A Dinner With Democratic Leaders?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article about Sotomayor being sentenced to death appears to be a continuation of a story the satirical outlet published in February that alleged she had been arrested by U.S. Marines. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/02\/22\/fact-check-sonia-sotomayor-arrested-military\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check Your Fact<\/a> debunked that claim at the time. Supreme Court Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/05\/25\/fact-check-us-military-amy-coney-barrett-house-arrest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amy Coney Barrett<\/a>\u00a0has also been the target of satirical stories stemming from Real Raw News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post shared on Facebook claims a military tribunal sentenced Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to death.Verdict: False There is no evidence that Sotomayor has been arrested or convicted of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1376494","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\/1376494","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376494\/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=1376494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}