Salon Article RatingElie Mystal: Our Constitution is "actually trash" -- but the Supreme Court can be fixed
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| "As long as you have six conservative justices, you get nothing on voting rights, you get nothing on gun rights, you get nothing on climate change, you get nothing on police brutality, you get nothing on health care, you get nothing." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "Mystal also lays bare the myth that the motivation behind the Second Amendment was about self-defense or a check on the government." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Today they talk about the Second Amendment as something about defending your house, or when the black helicopters coming to chase you, that kind of stuff, or for deer hunting." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "The Second Amendment is there to make it clear that everybody can be armed so they can raise this militia to go and fight slave revolts." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "The Second Amendment was here to stop slave revolts." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "As he notes, George Mason -- then the governor of Virginia and one of the drafters of the Constitution -- flat-out said that the Second Amendment was meant to guarantee that Southern states could form a well-regulated militia to fight slave revolts." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "That is what George Mason, then governor of Virginia, said, when advocating for a Second Amendment." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Share a little bit about the true origins of our Second Amendment." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "You had sitting senators, including Roger Wicker of Mississippi, call it a quota hire, literally affirmative action." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "For example, one thing I think is vitally important for Americans to know is the origin of the Second Amendment." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "The well-regulated militia, which is the first part of the Second Amendment, that was a thing was because in the South, the principal way of putting down revolting slaves was to bring out the well-regulated militia." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Ted Cruz turns Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court hearing into rehabilitation of Brett KavanaughYou make a compelling case for reform." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Ted Cruz turns Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court hearing into rehabilitation of Brett KavanaughYou make a compelling case for reform." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "You had sitting senators, including Roger Wicker of Mississippi, call it a quota hire, literally affirmative action." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "I mean, Steve King in Iowa, maybe, after just doing some straight-up Nazi rhetoric, but that's about it, right?" | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Ted Cruz knows that he's not going to lose a primary because he is too racist to the Black woman Supreme Court nominee, so he's just going to double down in that field." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "And Ted Cruz fixes his mouth to say, I guess if you're a white man, you have no shot." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Ted Cruz called it offensive and said, I guess if you're a white man or a white woman, you've got no shot at this." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "It's an idiot statement, designed to play into the grievances of his idiot base, but also to be horribly offensive to everybody else because Ted Cruz doesn't care about being horribly offensive to everybody else." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
59% : As long as you have six conservative justices, you get nothing on voting rights, you get nothing on gun rights, you get nothing on climate change, you get nothing on police brutality, you get nothing on health care, you get nothing.55% :Mystal also lays bare the myth that the motivation behind the Second Amendment was about self-defense or a check on the government.
54% : Today they talk about the Second Amendment as something about defending your house, or when the black helicopters coming to chase you, that kind of stuff, or for deer hunting.
54% : The Second Amendment is there to make it clear that everybody can be armed so they can raise this militia to go and fight slave revolts.
52% : The Second Amendment was here to stop slave revolts.
50% : As he notes, George Mason -- then the governor of Virginia and one of the drafters of the Constitution -- flat-out said that the Second Amendment was meant to guarantee that Southern states could form a "well-regulated militia" to "fight slave revolts."
48% : That is what George Mason, then governor of Virginia, said, when advocating for a Second Amendment.
47% : Share a little bit about the true origins of our Second Amendment.
45% : You had sitting senators, including Roger Wicker of Mississippi, call it a "quota hire," literally affirmative action.
44% : For example, one thing I think is vitally important for Americans to know is the origin of the Second Amendment.
44% : The "well-regulated militia," which is the first part of the Second Amendment, that was a thing was because in the South, the principal way of putting down revolting slaves was to bring out the well-regulated militia.
*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.