Analysis: Clarence Thomas has waited over 30 years for this moment - KION546

May 15, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    6% Center

  • Reliability

    N/AN/A

  • Policy Leaning

    68% Very Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    98% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

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  •   Conservative
SentenceSentimentBias
"He wants to make it easier for states to conduct executions and restrict the meaning of cruel and unusual punishment, as defined by the Eighth Amendment."
Positive
12% Conservative
"He wrote that the decision in that case reflected a distressing trend: the treatment of the Second Amendment as a disfavored right."
Positive
8% Conservative
"When Thomas joined the court, the justices had never held that the Second Amendment gives individuals a right to possess firearms."
Positive
4% Conservative
"Gun rights are up next."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"That case concerned an individual's right to own a handgun in the home, and Thomas has spent several years goading his colleagues to expand Second Amendment rights."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"But the court may now be embracing a broader view of the Second Amendment."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"The draft, which rejects a constitutional right to abortion, was written by Justice Samuel Alito, but he draws on ideas that are more associated with Thomas than anyone else now on the court."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"In 1992, the court reaffirmed Roe in Plaed Parenthood v. Casey, seemingly settling the constitutional right to abortion."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"That appears to be what happened in the Dobbs case about abortion; Thomas assigned the opinion to Alito."
Negative
-42% Liberal

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Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : He wants to make it easier for states to conduct executions and restrict the meaning of cruel and unusual punishment, as defined by the Eighth Amendment.
54% : He wrote that the decision in that case reflected a "distressing trend: the treatment of the Second Amendment as a disfavored right."
52% : When Thomas joined the court, the justices had never held that the Second Amendment gives individuals a right to possess firearms.
44% :Gun rights are up next.
44% : That case concerned an individual's right to own a handgun in the home, and Thomas has spent several years goading his colleagues to expand Second Amendment rights.
41% : But the court may now be embracing a broader view of the Second Amendment.
39% : The draft, which rejects a constitutional right to abortion, was written by Justice Samuel Alito, but he draws on ideas that are more associated with Thomas than anyone else now on the court.
38% : In 1992, the court reaffirmed Roe in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, seemingly settling the constitutional right to abortion.
29% : That appears to be what happened in the Dobbs case about abortion; Thomas assigned the opinion to Alito.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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