President Biden, Chief Justice Roberts to speak at Sandra Day O'Connor's funeral

  • Bias Rating

    -10% Center

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -12% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    6% Positive

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.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

36% Positive

  •   Liberal
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"Appointed as a conservative, she became known as a centrist, supporting traditional boundaries between church and state and writing an opinion justifying race-conscious admissions in law schools."
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-6% Liberal
"The nation was well-served, Sotomayor said, by the steady hand and intellect of a justice who never lost sight of how the law affected ordinary people."
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-8% Liberal
"Sandra Day O'Coor, the first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice, is being memorialized Tuesday in a funeral at Washington National Cathedral, where President Biden and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. are among those expected to deliver eulogies."
Positive
2% Conservative
"O'Coor, who died Dec. 1 at age 93, was nominated by President Ronald Reagan and served on the Supreme Court for nearly a quarter century, from 1981 until her retirement in 2006."
Positive
2% Conservative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Appointed as a conservative, she became known as a centrist, supporting traditional boundaries between church and state and writing an opinion justifying race-conscious admissions in law schools.
46% : "The nation was well-served," Sotomayor said, "by the steady hand and intellect of a justice who never lost sight of how the law affected ordinary people.

*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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