Los Angeles Times Article RatingEditorial: Supreme Court's affirmative action ban is a catastrophic blow to the American dream
Jun 29, 2023 View Original Article
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-38% Moderately Liberal
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| "Sotomayor called affirmative action a door-opener that changed her life." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| "Ironically, this is the most diverse Supreme Court in history and two justices have acknowledged that they benefited from affirmative action in education." | Positive | 22% Conservative |
| "The death knell for affirmative action has been sounding for years." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "The ruling will not affect private companies, though anti-discrimination policies have generally encouraged these corporations to have a diverse workforce." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Critics claim affirmative action policies benefit Black and Latino students, as well as others from underrepresented communities, at the expense of white and Asian students." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "The Supreme Court's decision Thursday blocking higher educational institutions from using affirmative action policies when considering student applications will have catastrophic effects at a time when the nation is still grappling with generations of racism." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Baing affirmative action in college admissions hardly makes America race-blind." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Justice Clarence Thomas has said, God only knows where I would be today without affirmative action, though he has been a staunch opponent of the policy for decades." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Fox News Digital exclusively obtained letters sent by Oversight Chairman James Comer, Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan and Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith sent letters to the Justice Department, Internal Revenue Service and the Secret Service Thursday." | Positive | 22% Conservative |
| "Fox News Digital exclusively obtained letters sent by Oversight Chairman James Comer, Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan and Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith sent letters to the Justice Department, Internal Revenue Service and the Secret Service Thursday." | Positive | 22% Conservative |
| "Fox News Digital exclusively obtained letters sent by Oversight Chairman James Comer, Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan and Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith sent letters to the Justice Department, Internal Revenue Service and the Secret Service Thursday." | Positive | 22% Conservative |
| "Jordan and the House Judiciary Committee will take the lead on the Justice Department and FBI portion of the investigation; with Comer and the House Oversight Committee taking lead on the Secret Service and Smith at the House Ways and Means Committee taking the lead on the IRS." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "From the Justice Department, the committees are requesting transcribed interviews with U.S. Attorney for Delaware David Weiss, who led the Justice Department's investigation into Hunter Biden; Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf, who allegedly blocked lines of questioning in the investigation related to President Biden; U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves, who allegedly blocked Weiss from charging Hunter Biden in his district; Jack Morgan and Mark Daly of the DOJ's Tax Division; U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California E. Martin Estrada; Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division Stuart Goldberg; Assistant U.S. Attorney Shaon Hanson in Delaware; and Assistant U.S. attorney Shawn Weede." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "WHISTLEBLOWER: 'NO WAY OF KNOWING' IF EVIDENCE OF 'OTHER CRIMINAL ACTIVITY' EXISTED ABOUT BIDENS ON LAPTOPThe federal government is supposed to work for the American people, but whistleblower evidence shows that several federal employees were working overtime to cover up for the Bidens, Comer, Jordan, and Smith said in a joint-statement provided to Fox News Digital." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "An IRS whistleblower alleged that on Dec. 7, 2020, FBI headquarters notified the Secret Service and the Biden transition team about the IRS' criminal investigative team's plan to interview Hunter Biden." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Fox News Digital first reported in December 2020 that Hunter Biden did not report approximately $400,000 in income he collected from his position on the board of Burisma Holdings when he joined in 2014." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
62% :Sotomayor called affirmative action a "door-opener" that changed her life.61% : Ironically, this is the most diverse Supreme Court in history and two justices have acknowledged that they benefited from affirmative action in education.
59% : The death knell for affirmative action has been sounding for years.
51% : The ruling will not affect private companies, though anti-discrimination policies have generally encouraged these corporations to have a diverse workforce.
49% : Critics claim affirmative action policies benefit Black and Latino students, as well as others from underrepresented communities, at the expense of white and Asian students.
47% : The Supreme Court's decision Thursday blocking higher educational institutions from using affirmative action policies when considering student applications will have catastrophic effects at a time when the nation is still grappling with generations of racism.
46% : Banning affirmative action in college admissions hardly makes America race-blind.
44% : Justice Clarence Thomas has said, "God only knows where I would be today" without affirmative action, though he has been a staunch opponent of the policy for decades.
*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.