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The Seattle Times Article Rating

Judge bars Trump from denying funds to 'sanctuary' cities like Seattle

  • Bias Rating
  • Reliability

    40% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -58% 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.

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : At a hearing Wednesday, Trump administration lawyers argued it was too early for the judge to grant an injunction, because the administration hasn't actually put the "sanctuary" orders into practice yet by trying to withhold specific amounts of money from particular jurisdictions.
52% : There's no strict legal definition for sanctuary cities or sanctuary policies, but the terms usually refer to limits placed on local cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
43% : Seattle, King County and Washington state all prohibit local agencies from assisting federal immigration agents, with certain narrow exceptions.
19% : " The Trump administration has also released memos threatening civil and criminal prosecutions against local officials who refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

*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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