Not just guns and abortion: How US top court could reshape rules

Jul 01, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -54% Very Liberal

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    60% Very Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    88% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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"In another landmark ruling expanding gun rights, the court on June 23 found that the US Constitution protects an individual's right to carry a handgun in public."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"The Supreme Court on Thursday curbed the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to restrict greenhouse gas emissions from power plants in a ruling that limits federal agency power."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Conservative Justice Clarence Thomas caused alarm on the left by writing in his concurring opinion that the court should consider overturning other precedents going back decades protecting individual freedoms including gay marriage, same-sex intimacy and access to birth control."
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-10% Liberal
"The US Supreme Court's most consequential term in decades, with blockbuster rulings on abortion, guns, religion and climate change policy, illustrated how its expanded conservative majority is willing to boldly use its power with far-reaching impacts on American society."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Some conservatives would like to go further and ban abortion nationwide, either through an act of Congress or via a Supreme Court decision, although it remains to be seen if the justices would be receptive to such an approach."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Conservatives have long complained about affirmative action policies used by many colleges and universities to increase their numbers of Black and Hispanic students."
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-20% Liberal
"The decision, a blow to the Biden administration's aggressive plan to curb carbon emissions, has broad implications because the court invoked what it calls the major questions doctrine, which holds that agency actions of nationwide importance require explicit authorisation from Congress."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Democratic President Joe Biden's appointment of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, sworn in on Thursday to replace retiring fellow liberal Justice Stephen Breyer, does not change the court's ideological balance, with a six-to-three conservative majority."
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-18% Liberal
"Democratic President Joe Biden's appointment of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, sworn in on Thursday to replace retiring fellow liberal Justice Stephen Breyer, does not change the court's ideological balance, with a six-to-three conservative majority."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"It could also make it harder to challenge voting restrictions, including those enacted by Republican legislators in a number of states in the wake of former President Donald Trump's false claims of widespread voting fraud in his 2020 loss to Biden."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"It could also make it harder to challenge voting restrictions, including those enacted by Republican legislators in a number of states in the wake of former President Donald Trump's false claims of widespread voting fraud in his 2020 loss to Biden."
Negative
-10% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : In another landmark ruling expanding gun rights, the court on June 23 found that the US Constitution protects an individual's right to carry a handgun in public.
47% : The Supreme Court on Thursday curbed the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to restrict greenhouse gas emissions from power plants in a ruling that limits federal agency power.
45% : Conservative Justice Clarence Thomas caused alarm on the left by writing in his concurring opinion that the court should consider overturning other precedents going back decades protecting individual freedoms including gay marriage, same-sex intimacy and access to birth control.
43% : The US Supreme Court's most consequential term in decades, with blockbuster rulings on abortion, guns, religion and climate change policy, illustrated how its expanded conservative majority is willing to boldly use its power with far-reaching impacts on American society.
41% : Some conservatives would like to go further and ban abortion nationwide, either through an act of Congress or via a Supreme Court decision, although it remains to be seen if the justices would be receptive to such an approach.
40% : Conservatives have long complained about affirmative action policies used by many colleges and universities to increase their numbers of Black and Hispanic students.

*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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