Masthead Maine Article RatingSupreme Court to hear challenge to affirmative action in college admissions
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| "A decision against the schools could mean the end of affirmative action in college admissions." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "The conservative-dominated Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to the consideration of race in college admissions, adding another blockbuster case to a term with abortion, guns, religion and COVID-19 already on the agenda." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "The court already has heard arguments in cases that could expand gun rights and religious rights and also roll back abortion rights in a direct challenge to the Roe v. Wade ruling from 1973." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "The conservative-dominated Supreme Court added another blockbuster case to a term with abortion, guns, religion and COVID-19 on the agenda." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "In the Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, Powell approvingly cited Harvard as an illuminating example of a college that takes race into account in achieving the educational diversity valued by the First Amendment." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Last week, the justice's weighed in for the first time on President Joe Biden's vaccine policies, halting a rule requiring a vaccine or testing at large businesses while allowing a vaccine mandate for most of the nation's health care workers." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "But the composition of the court has changed since then, with the addition of three conservative justices who were appointed by then-President Donald Trump." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "The Biden administration had urged the justices to stay away from the issue, writing in the Harvard case that the challenges caot justify that extraordinary step of overruling the 2003 decision." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "The Biden administration dropped the Yale suit." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "The Trump administration had backed Blum's case against Harvard and filed its own lawsuit alleging discrimination against Asian American and white people at Yale University." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
58% : A decision against the schools could mean the end of affirmative action in college admissions.51% : The conservative-dominated Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to the consideration of race in college admissions, adding another blockbuster case to a term with abortion, guns, religion and COVID-19 already on the agenda.
50% : The court already has heard arguments in cases that could expand gun rights and religious rights and also roll back abortion rights in a direct challenge to the Roe v. Wade ruling from 1973.
48% : The conservative-dominated Supreme Court added another blockbuster case to a term with abortion, guns, religion and COVID-19 on the agenda.
42% : In the Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, Powell approvingly cited Harvard as "an illuminating example" of a college that takes "race into account in achieving the educational diversity valued by the First Amendment."
*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.