Supreme Court justices appear poised to offer Trump some immunity

Apr 26, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -4% Center

  • Reliability

    25% ReliablePoor

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    98% 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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"The Supreme Court justices appear poised to offer Donald Trump and future US presidents some form of immunity from criminal prosecution for their actions while in office – while rejecting broad absolute immunity."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"US president Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a rally on January 6 2021 (REUTERS)Mr Trump is accused of attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results by making false claims of election fraud, conspiring to install fake electors and pressuring his then-vice president Mike Pence."
Negative
-96% Liberal
"During the arguments, the conservative male majority of the court toyed with the idea of awarding some protections to Mr Trump in his case."
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2% Conservative
"Mr Trump has previously contended that all the charges relate to u201cofficialu201d acts, rather than u201cprivateu201d acts, and so are protected by presidential immunity."
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-2% Liberal
"John Sauer, the attorney representing Mr Trump, agreed that some of the alleged acts were indeed private actions."
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-4% Liberal
"Mr Trumpu2019s lawyers claim he has presidential immunity from charges of federal election interference brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith over the former presidentu2019s actions around the 2020 election."
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-18% Liberal
"For Mr Trump, this could hand him something of a win in his federal election interference case by further delaying it from going to trial while the legal wrangling plays out u2013 meaning it may not get to trial before the November election."
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-12% Liberal
"The Supreme Court justices appear poised to offer Donald Trump and future US presidents some form of immunity from criminal prosecution for their actions while in office u2013 while rejecting broad absolute immunity."
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-16% Liberal
"US president Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a rally on January 6 2021 (REUTERS)Mr Trump is accused of attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results by making false claims of election fraud, conspiring to install fake electors and pressuring his then-vice president Mike Pence."
Negative
-88% Liberal
"US president Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a rally on January 6 2021 (REUTERS)Mr Trump is accused of attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results by making false claims of election fraud, conspiring to install fake electors and pressuring his then-vice president Mike Pence."
Negative
-88% Liberal
"US president Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a rally on January 6 2021 (REUTERS)Mr Trump is accused of attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results by making false claims of election fraud, conspiring to install fake electors and pressuring his then-vice president Mike Pence."
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-88% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

35% : The Supreme Court justices appear poised to offer Donald Trump and future US presidents some form of immunity from criminal prosecution for their actions while in office – while rejecting broad absolute immunity.
2% : US president Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during a rally on January 6 2021 (REUTERS)Mr Trump is accused of attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results by making false claims of election fraud, conspiring to install fake electors and pressuring his then-vice president Mike Pence.

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