The Meadows family vote-fraud scandal, continued The Fact Checker revealed new information about a pattern of providing false information voter forms by Debra Meadows, the wife of former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. On Oct. 26, 2020, Debra appeared at the Macon County community building in Franklin, N.C., and filled out a one-stop voter application to cast an early ballot in the 2020 presidential election. She also dropped off an absentee ballot that she had requested for her husband, then the White House chief of staff, an election board official said. On her one-stop application, provided by the North Carolina Board of Elections to The Fact Checker, Debra Meadows certified that she had resided at a 14-by-62-foot mountaintop mobile home for at least 30 days — even though she did not live there. At the top of the form is a notice that "fraudulently or falsely completing this form" is a Class I felony. This form is the latest in a string of revelations concerning the former chief of staff — who echoed President Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud in 2020 — and his wife. The New Yorker first reported that Mark and Debra Meadows submitted voter registration forms that listed as their home a mobile home with a rusted metal roof that sold for $105,000 in 2021, even though they had never lived there. North Carolina officials announced last week that Mark Meadows is under investigation for potential voter fraud. The Fact Checker's reporting shows that in 2020 Debra Meadows signed at least two forms — a voter registration form and the one-stop application — that warned of legal consequences if falsely completed and signed. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. We fact-checked several key GOP attacks on Judge Jackson Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden's nominee to the Supreme Court, underwent grueling confirmation hearings this week. A key line of attack by GOP lawmakers, led by Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, was her record of sentencing child-pornography defendants. But the picture that Hawley provided is a selective one that lacks significant context. He suggested that Jackson was out of the judicial mainstream. But he ignored a long debate within the judicial community about whether mandatory minimums were too high. As a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which is charged with reducing sentencing disparities, Jackson was intimately involved in that debate. Hawley selectively quoted from testimony, USSC materials and various court cases to make his case. Hawley earned Three Pinocchios. When Jackson was elevated to the appeals court last year, her record on child pornography cases was not an issue. In another article, we examined how some district judges who were nominated to the appeals level under President Donald Trump handled sentencing in child pornography cases — and whether they followed the prosecution's recommendations. There are at least 18 instances when six GOP judges elevated to the appeals court did not follow the prosecutor's recommendations. Finally, Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) claimed that an organization called Arabella Advisers threatened lawmakers with primary challenges if they did not back Jackson, who he claimed was a favorite of the left. But no evidence was provided by Graham's staff that shows Arabella was behind any pressure campaign. Arabella Advisors essentially provides back-office support, compliance assistance and grant processing to liberal philanthropic and nonprofit groups, including groups incorporated so they can received donations from undisclosed donors. Graham earned Four Pinocchios. We're always looking for fact-check suggestions. You can reach us via email, Twitter (@GlennKesslerWP and @AdriUsero) or Facebook. Read about our process and rating scale here, and sign up for the newsletter here. Scroll down for this week's Pinocchio roundup. | 
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