Supreme Court takes cases on future of affirmative action

Jan 24, 2022 View Original Article
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    36% Medium Conservative

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  • Policy Leaning

    36% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    60% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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"The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would take up a pair of cases that could decide the future of affirmative action in college admissions."
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10% Conservative
"Public schools have no legitimate interest in maintaining a precise racial balance, the group wrote in its brief to the court."
Positive
8% Conservative
"The same Fourteenth Amendment that required public schools to dismantle segregation after [Brown v. Board of Education] caot be cowed by the diktats of university administrators.That the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the cases is widely seen as an indication that the court could be willing to revisit its precedents on affirmative action and end the use of racial classifications in admissions altogether."
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0% Conservative
"The cases join a blockbuster series of issues on the Supreme Court's docket, including gun rights and abortion."
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-10% Liberal
"Chief Justice John Roberts has been among the most outspoken critics of affirmative action, famously declaring in a 2006 opinion, It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race."
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-72% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would take up a pair of cases that could decide the future of affirmative action in college admissions.
54% : "Public schools have no legitimate interest in maintaining a precise racial balance," the group wrote in its brief to the court.
50% : "The same Fourteenth Amendment that required public schools to dismantle segregation after [Brown v. Board of Education] cannot be cowed by the diktats of university administrators."That the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the cases is widely seen as an indication that the court could be willing to revisit its precedents on affirmative action and end the use of racial classifications in admissions altogether.
45% : The cases join a blockbuster series of issues on the Supreme Court's docket, including gun rights and abortion.
14% : Chief Justice John Roberts has been among the most outspoken critics of affirmative action, famously declaring in a 2006 opinion, "It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race."

*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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