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| "In coming months, the court is expected to rule on key issues affecting Americans' lives, including abortion rights, guns, voting, and affirmative action." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "That's no longer the case, says Professor Maxwell Mak of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, who researches judicial confirmations." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "What a great day it is for the United States of America, for our system of government, and the grand march of the fulfillment of the sacred covenant we have as an American people: e pluribus unum - out of many, one, said Sen. Raphael Warnock, a pastor of Martin Luther King's church in Georgia, on the Senate floor." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Republicans were focusing more and more on judicial philosophy, Professor Tribe recalls Mr. Biden saying." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Four years later, President Donald Trump nominated then-Judge Barrett in late September and Republicans rushed through her confirmation by Oct. 27, about a week before Election Day." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Chairman Biden led a charged confirmation hearing in which he and other senators interrogated Judge Bork on his originalist interpretation of the Constitution." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "The court increasingly is seen as just another branch of government, rather than above politics, says Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Coecticut, who serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "In his nearly 20-year tenure, GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina had never voted against a Supreme Court nominee - until today." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "When you just require confirmation within the party, then you're going to have more ideologically driven people, says Senator Graham, who adds that he believes President Biden could have gotten more GOP support for one of his other top contenders, Michelle Childs of South Carolina, another Black woman judge who was one of Mr. Biden's finalists." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "When you just require confirmation within the party, then you're going to have more ideologically driven people, says Senator Graham, who adds that he believes President Biden could have gotten more GOP support for one of his other top contenders, Michelle Childs of South Carolina, another Black woman judge who was one of Mr. Biden's finalists." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "When you just require confirmation within the party, then you're going to have more ideologically driven people, says Senator Graham, who adds that he believes President Biden could have gotten more GOP support for one of his other top contenders, Michelle Childs of South Carolina, another Black woman judge who was one of Mr. Biden's finalists." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "I am hearing from people, not just Black women, who are relating to me their stories about having to come into a room where you're more qualified than the people who are sitting in judgment of you and having to endure the absurdities of disrespect that we saw Judge Jackson endure, said New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, a Democrat and one of the chamber's three Black members." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "[Sen. Charles Schumer, then chairman of the Judiciary Committee,] said that we're going to now start thinking about judicial philosophy and holding people up that we don't like, says Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Professor Tribe, whom Senator Schumer brought in to speak to that group in Farmington, along with his Harvard colleague Cass Sunstein, disputes that interpretation." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "He supported Obama nominees Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "He supported Obama nominees Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "These outside groups ... are increasingly driving the process, says Senator Collins, one of the three Republicans to vote in favor of Judge Jackson's confirmation Thursday." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "The court increasingly is seen as just another branch of government, rather than above politics, says Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a former Supreme Court clerk and U.S. attorney for Coecticut who now serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "But there was a bigger question Senator Biden was wrestling with as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee: What criteria should they use to evaluate Judge Bork?" | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Many supporters of Judge Jackson took issue with the way Senator Graham and other Republicans treated her during the hearings, aggressively questioning her and using the proceedings to air grievances about Democratic treatment of the last GOP nominee, Justice Barrett." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "In 2016, Republicans wouldn't even hold hearings for Merrick Garland, whom President Barack Obama had nominated in March, saying it was too close to the November election." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "In 1987, then-Sen. Joe Biden invited constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe to help him prepare for the confirmation hearings of President Ronald Reagan's controversial Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "In 1987, then-Sen. Joe Biden invited constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe to help him prepare for the confirmation hearings of President Ronald Reagan's controversial Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "This time around, Senator Collins was sharply criticized by a member of her own party, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, for her support of Judge Jackson." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "This time around, Senator Collins was sharply criticized by a member of her own party, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, for her support of Judge Jackson." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "And outside groups are increasingly pushing senators to apply litmus tests to nominees, says GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who faced a tough 2020 reelection campaign after her vote helped Justice Brett Kavanaugh squeak through 50-48 in 2018." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "And outside groups are increasingly pushing senators to apply litmus tests to nominees, says GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who faced a tough 2020 reelection campaign after her vote helped Justice Brett Kavanaugh squeak through 50-48 in 2018." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
47% : In coming months, the court is expected to rule on key issues affecting Americans' lives, including abortion rights, guns, voting, and affirmative action.37% : That's no longer the case, says Professor Maxwell Mak of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, who researches judicial confirmations.
*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.