Portland Press Herald Article RatingSupreme Court takes up affirmative action in college admissions - Portland Press Herald
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| "filed under: affirmative action, u.s. supreme court Related Stories Latest Articles" | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "People rally outside the Supreme Court as the court begins to hear oral arguments in two cases that could decide the future of affirmative action in college admissions, Monday, Oct. 31, 2022, in Washington." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "In 2020, California voters easily rejected a ballot measure to bring back affirmative action." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Justice Samuel Alito likened affirmative action to a race in which a minority applicant gets to start five yards closer to the finish line." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Members of the Supreme Court's conservative majority are questioning the continued use of affirmative action in higher education in lengthy arguments Monday in which the justices are wrestling with difficult questions of race." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "At another point he said: Tell me what the educational benefits are?Justice Amy Coney Barrett, another conservative, pointed to one of the court's previous affirmative action cases and said it anticipated an end to the use of affirmative action, saying it was dangerous, and it has to have an end point." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "During arguments in the first of two cases, the court sounded split along ideological lines on the issue of affirmative action." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Jackson was chosen this year by President Joe Biden." | Positive | 22% Conservative |
| "The Biden administration is urging the court to preserve race-conscious admissions." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "But that was before the three appointees of former President Donald Trump joined." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "The Trump administration had taken the opposite position in earlier stages of the cases." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
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59% :filed under: affirmative action, u.s. supreme court Related Stories Latest Articles55% : People rally outside the Supreme Court as the court begins to hear oral arguments in two cases that could decide the future of affirmative action in college admissions, Monday, Oct. 31, 2022, in Washington.
55% : In 2020, California voters easily rejected a ballot measure to bring back affirmative action.
53% : Justice Samuel Alito likened affirmative action to a race in which a minority applicant gets to "start five yards closer to the finish line."
52% : Members of the Supreme Court's conservative majority are questioning the continued use of affirmative action in higher education in lengthy arguments Monday in which the justices are wrestling with difficult questions of race.
52% : At another point he said: "Tell me what the educational benefits are?"Justice Amy Coney Barrett, another conservative, pointed to one of the court's previous affirmative action cases and said it anticipated an end to the use of affirmative action, saying it was "dangerous, and it has to have an end point."
40% : During arguments in the first of two cases, the court sounded split along ideological lines on the issue of affirmative action.
*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.