SFGate Article RatingIn political spotlight, Supreme Court embarks on extraordinarily controversial term
Oct 03, 2021 View Original Article
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| "The court has become much more receptive to the pleas of religious organizations, and in 2020 loosened the rules on such schools participating in state assistance programs." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Before the term ends next summer, the justices will have weighed in on three major public policy disputes - guns, religious rights and possibly race, if the court takes up a request to once again review affirmative action in university admissions." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "If the court actually is prepared to overrule Roe and Casey, what it does on guns and affirmative action will be relatively minor wind in the sails, Wall said at a recent preview of the term at the Georgetown Law Center." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "After deciding in 2008 that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to keep a handgun in the home, the court has generally stayed away from gun control issues." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Abortion providers and advocacy groups say the viability line makes sense, and is the only way the court can protect the right to abortion against ever-changing restrictions." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Barrett's replacement of Ginsburg seems to have changed the dynamic, and the court finally will consider an NRA-backed effort to have the court find that Second Amendment rights extend beyond the home." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Republican-led states and antiabortion activists are asking the court to overrule the constitutional guarantee of abortion it established nearly 50 years ago in Roe v. Wade, and reaffirmed 20 years later in Plaed Parenthood v. Casey." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Opponents say it has forced those who want abortions to either continue an unwanted pregnancy or travel to other states to get the procedure, in effect nullifying the guarantee of Roe to choose abortion before the fetus is viable." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Biden made a campaign pledge that his first Supreme Court nominee would be the court's first African American woman." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "The bold request in the Mississippi case comes before a transformed and evolving court, with three new justices, all conservatives chosen by Trump, added in the last four years." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "And a presidential commission on the Supreme Court, taking testimony on the court's power and proposals to add seats to the court, limit justices' lifetime tenure and require more transparency, is due to report to President Joe Biden next month." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Critics pounced on the fact she made the remarks at an event alongside her political benefactor, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McCoell, R-Ky., at a center named for him at the University of Louisville." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "In June, the court asked the Biden administration's acting solicitor general to weigh in on whether it should take the case." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "The Trump administration had supported Harvard's challengers in lower court, but it is likely the new administration will side with the university." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "The narrative of the term, said Jeffrey Wall, former acting solicitor general for President Donald Trump, will rise and fall with the court's decision on Mississippi's law baing almost all abortions after 15 weeks." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Another change on the court is possible: Justice Stephen Breyer, 83 and nominated by President Bill Clinton, faces increasing pressure to retire while another Democrat is in the White House and the party has a tenuous hold on the Senate." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Another change on the court is possible: Justice Stephen Breyer, 83 and nominated by President Bill Clinton, faces increasing pressure to retire while another Democrat is in the White House and the party has a tenuous hold on the Senate." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
56% : The court has become much more receptive to the pleas of religious organizations, and in 2020 loosened the rules on such schools participating in state assistance programs.55% : Before the term ends next summer, the justices will have weighed in on three major public policy disputes - guns, religious rights and possibly race, if the court takes up a request to once again review affirmative action in university admissions.
55% : "If the court actually is prepared to overrule Roe and Casey, what it does on guns and affirmative action will be relatively minor wind in the sails," Wall said at a recent preview of the term at the Georgetown Law Center.
55% : After deciding in 2008 that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to keep a handgun in the home, the court has generally stayed away from gun control issues.
47% : Abortion providers and advocacy groups say the viability line makes sense, and is the only way the court can protect the right to abortion against ever-changing restrictions.
46% : Barrett's replacement of Ginsburg seems to have changed the dynamic, and the court finally will consider an NRA-backed effort to have the court find that Second Amendment rights extend beyond the home.
44% : Republican-led states and antiabortion activists are asking the court to overrule the constitutional guarantee of abortion it established nearly 50 years ago in Roe v. Wade, and reaffirmed 20 years later in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
40% : Opponents say it has forced those who want abortions to either continue an unwanted pregnancy or travel to other states to get the procedure, in effect nullifying the guarantee of Roe to choose abortion before the fetus is viable.
*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.