The Guardian Article RatingThe US supreme court may turn this election into a constitutional crisis | Sidney Blumenthal
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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
|---|---|---|
| "Trump proclaims he is president wherever he is." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| "Trump appointed Hur the US attorney for Maryland, which certainly met with the approval of Federalist Society chair Leonard Leo." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "With a supreme court ruling against Colorado, Trump would hail it as a major political victory, brandishing it as proof that all of the charges against him were motivated by partisanship." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Begiing as a summer intern in 2000 at Kirkland & Ellis, where he had the model of partner Brett Kavanaugh, he clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist in the period when he was issuing opinions blocking abortion clinics from using Rico to sue anti-abortion protesters for damages, in Scheidler v National Organization for Women and striking down affirmative action to increase racial diversity in college admissions in Grutter v Bollinger and Gratz v Bollinger." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "The case for remanding Trump to jail in New York then goes to the supreme court." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "In the hearing of the Colorado case earlier this month, Chief Justice John Roberts cast aside the pretense of the conservative doctrines of originalism and textualism on which the supreme court has eviscerated voting rights, gun control and abortion rights." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "If the Democrats were to win the House, they could remove Trump." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "There was no appearance of obstruction of justice or perjury, as there was in the documents case against Trump." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida responds that while Trump might be the president he will honor the extradition clause of the constitution to deliver him from Mar-a-Lago as a fugitive from justice." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "The reason is that now, according to this scenario, the 119th Congress, sworn in on 3 January 2025, could reject the electors from states for Trump by deciding that he is an insurrectionist." | Negative | -40% Liberal |
| "If there is a deadlock, the Ginsberg brief argues, the House still would have an option to remove Trump." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "All along, throughout the entire campaign year, that would mean that Trump has never been qualified." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "But before that would have taken place, the House could vote that Trump is excluded from a 12th amendment ballot because he was disqualified under the 14th amendment, section 3." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "Biden federalizes them, but the Republican governors proclaim that he has usurped power to keep himself in office illegitimately and that Trump is the truly elected president." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "Hur was an associate to deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, who defended attorney general William Barr's misrepresentation of a redacted version of the Mueller report on Russian interference in the presidential election of 2016 to assist Trump." | Negative | -68% Liberal |
| "If the Republicans win control of the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McCoell, refusing to whip the vote for Trump, could allow a number of Republican senators to vote for Trump's disqualification, which would void his electoral votes by both chambers." | Negative | -74% Liberal |
| "All the events of 2024 converge:The US supreme court's likely ruling in Trump v Anderson denying Colorado's disqualification of Trump under the constitution's 14th amendment, section 3; the exoneration of Joe Biden by special counsel Robert Hur for handling documents while sideswiping him as near senile; the ruling on Trump's immunity; the trial for his coup attempt; and Texas Governor Greg Abbott's defiance of federal court rulings in deploying his national guard to the border, supported by other Republican governors who have mobilized their guard units in similar acts of nullification - all these happenings could hurtle to a convulsive confrontation." | Negative | -78% Liberal |
| "In Biden, Hur had a president willfully dedicated to cooperation." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| "Trump proclaims he is president wherever he is." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Trump appointed Hur the US attorney for Maryland, which certainly met with the approval of Federalist Society chair Leonard Leo." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Now, imagine that in the 2024 election Biden wins the popular vote for the presidency by millions." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "I have personally had long conversations with Biden since I met him nearly 40 years ago." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Biden's quoted statements that appeared muddled are completely familiar to anyone who has ever had a discussion with him." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Which means that Joe Biden would be reelected in any case." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "(I know of many people who have had conversations with Biden very recently, who report that he is focused, sharp and has a cogent grasp of the many crises he is handling at once.)" | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Trump's bluster would be equated with strength and his threats with energy." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Hur's elaborately cute description of a doddering Biden was not gratuitous; it was carefully crafted." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "The brief by Ginsberg et al was unvarnished: A decision from this court leaving unresolved the question of Donald Trump's qualification to hold the office of president of the United States under section 3 of the 14th amendment until after the 2024 election would risk catastrophic political instability, chance disenfranchising millions of voters, and raise the possibility of public violence before, on, and after November 5 2024." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "The brief added that the grounds for avoiding the merits are not credible: Colorado manifestly had the authority to determine Mr Trump's legal qualification for the office he seeks, and this court has jurisdiction to review that federal-law decision on its merits." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "The more Biden would try to explain the benefits of his policies, the more the Maga base and suggestible voters would disbelieve him because they have already decided he was too old to do anything, a perception reinforced not only by Fox News but also by the drumbeat of mainstream and social media." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Special counsel Robert Hur's report on the storage of documents at the Pe Biden Center and Biden's home, published earlier this month, underscored the negative campaign attack." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Instead, Biden was willing to elevate the legal process over affairs of state." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "If a ludicrous suit were ever to be filed against Biden claiming he was an insurrectionist, it would enter into the process of that state's courts." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "So, consider the possible effects in a not-so-distant future:Disqualified by the Congress, an enraged Trump files a suit before the supreme court." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Trump's malignant rants, meanwhile, would be, as they are often now, either accepted or dismissed." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "But Hur instrumentally deployed his summary of his encounter with Biden as an excuse for his lack of evidence." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Self-installed as the president of the de facto Second Confederacy, Trump's first act is to pardon himself of all federal crimes." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "The case for remanding Trump to jail in New York then goes to the supreme court." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "The cognitive discoect in failing to attribute results to Biden's actions results would have enormous political consequences." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "The irony was surely lost on the hard-wired conservative that his description of Biden fit Ronald Reagan to a tee." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "The irony was surely lost on the hard-wired conservative that his description of Biden fit Ronald Reagan to a tee." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "By dodging the question of Trump's eligibility for re-election, the court could force a dangerous situation on to CongressImagine it is 6 January 2025." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "He retreated into a political hypothetical that if the court ruled in Colorado's favor Biden might be subject to attempts to remove him from the ballot as an insurrectionist." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "But consider that Biden's overall vote and vote in swing states might be hurt by a lingering ill wind from the special counsel's report, blowing suspicion that, despite his command of foreign policy, military affairs and congressional negotiations, he is too damn old, unlike his unsympathetic, malicious, despised, and also elderly opponent." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "While Biden's irrelevant gaffes have so far been held against him, Trump's stream of semi-consciousness has been credited as a sign of vigor." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "While Biden's irrelevant gaffes have so far been held against him, Trump's stream of semi-consciousness has been credited as a sign of vigor." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "This was followed by contradictory assertions that Biden willfully retained documents and that reasonable jurors would conclude that he did not retain them willfully, and that he made an iocent mistake, rather than acting willfully - that is, with intent to break the law - as the statute requires.Having exonerated Biden, the special counsel added this snark: We have also considered that, at trial, Mr Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "This was followed by contradictory assertions that Biden willfully retained documents and that reasonable jurors would conclude that he did not retain them willfully, and that he made an iocent mistake, rather than acting willfully - that is, with intent to break the law - as the statute requires.Having exonerated Biden, the special counsel added this snark: We have also considered that, at trial, Mr Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "This was followed by contradictory assertions that Biden willfully retained documents and that reasonable jurors would conclude that he did not retain them willfully, and that he made an iocent mistake, rather than acting willfully - that is, with intent to break the law - as the statute requires.Having exonerated Biden, the special counsel added this snark: We have also considered that, at trial, Mr Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "As armies prepare to clash on a darkling plain, Trump's last-ditch appeal in the Manhattan election fraud case for paying hush money to a porn star goes against him." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "If the Democrats were to win the House, they could remove Trump." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "If that report imprinted the notion that Biden's age reflected disability, then wavering voters could fail to grant Biden the credit for his accomplishments, instead giving more weight to the image of him as incapacitated, leaving the record of his presidency unexplained." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "If that report imprinted the notion that Biden's age reflected disability, then wavering voters could fail to grant Biden the credit for his accomplishments, instead giving more weight to the image of him as incapacitated, leaving the record of his presidency unexplained." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "There was no appearance of obstruction of justice or perjury, as there was in the documents case against Trump." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida responds that while Trump might be the president he will honor the extradition clause of the constitution to deliver him from Mar-a-Lago as a fugitive from justice." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida responds that while Trump might be the president he will honor the extradition clause of the constitution to deliver him from Mar-a-Lago as a fugitive from justice." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "The reason is that now, according to this scenario, the 119th Congress, sworn in on 3 January 2025, could reject the electors from states for Trump by deciding that he is an insurrectionist." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "If there is a deadlock, the Ginsberg brief argues, the House still would have an option to remove Trump." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "All along, throughout the entire campaign year, that would mean that Trump has never been qualified." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "But before that would have taken place, the House could vote that Trump is excluded from a 12th amendment ballot because he was disqualified under the 14th amendment, section 3." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Biden federalizes them, but the Republican governors proclaim that he has usurped power to keep himself in office illegitimately and that Trump is the truly elected president." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Biden federalizes them, but the Republican governors proclaim that he has usurped power to keep himself in office illegitimately and that Trump is the truly elected president." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Trump flees to Texas, where Governor Abbott refuses the extradition order." | Negative | -58% Liberal |
| "Trump flees to Texas, where Governor Abbott refuses the extradition order." | Negative | -58% Liberal |
| "Hur was an associate to deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, who defended attorney general William Barr's misrepresentation of a redacted version of the Mueller report on Russian interference in the presidential election of 2016 to assist Trump." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Hur was an associate to deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, who defended attorney general William Barr's misrepresentation of a redacted version of the Mueller report on Russian interference in the presidential election of 2016 to assist Trump." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "If the Republicans win control of the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McCoell, refusing to whip the vote for Trump, could allow a number of Republican senators to vote for Trump's disqualification, which would void his electoral votes by both chambers." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "If the Republicans win control of the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McCoell, refusing to whip the vote for Trump, could allow a number of Republican senators to vote for Trump's disqualification, which would void his electoral votes by both chambers." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "If the Republicans win control of the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McCoell, refusing to whip the vote for Trump, could allow a number of Republican senators to vote for Trump's disqualification, which would void his electoral votes by both chambers." | Negative | -62% Liberal |
| "All the events of 2024 converge:The US supreme court's likely ruling in Trump v Anderson denying Colorado's disqualification of Trump under the constitution's 14th amendment, section 3; the exoneration of Joe Biden by special counsel Robert Hur for handling documents while sideswiping him as near senile; the ruling on Trump's immunity; the trial for his coup attempt; and Texas Governor Greg Abbott's defiance of federal court rulings in deploying his national guard to the border, supported by other Republican governors who have mobilized their guard units in similar acts of nullification - all these happenings could hurtle to a convulsive confrontation." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "All the events of 2024 converge:The US supreme court's likely ruling in Trump v Anderson denying Colorado's disqualification of Trump under the constitution's 14th amendment, section 3; the exoneration of Joe Biden by special counsel Robert Hur for handling documents while sideswiping him as near senile; the ruling on Trump's immunity; the trial for his coup attempt; and Texas Governor Greg Abbott's defiance of federal court rulings in deploying his national guard to the border, supported by other Republican governors who have mobilized their guard units in similar acts of nullification - all these happenings could hurtle to a convulsive confrontation." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "All the events of 2024 converge:The US supreme court's likely ruling in Trump v Anderson denying Colorado's disqualification of Trump under the constitution's 14th amendment, section 3; the exoneration of Joe Biden by special counsel Robert Hur for handling documents while sideswiping him as near senile; the ruling on Trump's immunity; the trial for his coup attempt; and Texas Governor Greg Abbott's defiance of federal court rulings in deploying his national guard to the border, supported by other Republican governors who have mobilized their guard units in similar acts of nullification - all these happenings could hurtle to a convulsive confrontation." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "All the events of 2024 converge:The US supreme court's likely ruling in Trump v Anderson denying Colorado's disqualification of Trump under the constitution's 14th amendment, section 3; the exoneration of Joe Biden by special counsel Robert Hur for handling documents while sideswiping him as near senile; the ruling on Trump's immunity; the trial for his coup attempt; and Texas Governor Greg Abbott's defiance of federal court rulings in deploying his national guard to the border, supported by other Republican governors who have mobilized their guard units in similar acts of nullification - all these happenings could hurtle to a convulsive confrontation." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "All the events of 2024 converge:The US supreme court's likely ruling in Trump v Anderson denying Colorado's disqualification of Trump under the constitution's 14th amendment, section 3; the exoneration of Joe Biden by special counsel Robert Hur for handling documents while sideswiping him as near senile; the ruling on Trump's immunity; the trial for his coup attempt; and Texas Governor Greg Abbott's defiance of federal court rulings in deploying his national guard to the border, supported by other Republican governors who have mobilized their guard units in similar acts of nullification - all these happenings could hurtle to a convulsive confrontation." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
62% : Trump proclaims he is president wherever he is.57% : Trump appointed Hur the US attorney for Maryland, which certainly met with the approval of Federalist Society chair Leonard Leo.
52% : With a supreme court ruling against Colorado, Trump would hail it as a major political victory, brandishing it as proof that all of the charges against him were motivated by partisanship.
50% : Beginning as a summer intern in 2000 at Kirkland & Ellis, where he had the model of partner Brett Kavanaugh, he clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist in the period when he was issuing opinions blocking abortion clinics from using Rico to sue anti-abortion protesters for damages, in Scheidler v National Organization for Women and striking down affirmative action to increase racial diversity in college admissions in Grutter v Bollinger and Gratz v Bollinger.
39% : The case for remanding Trump to jail in New York then goes to the supreme court.
37% : In the hearing of the Colorado case earlier this month, Chief Justice John Roberts cast aside the pretense of the conservative doctrines of originalism and textualism on which the supreme court has eviscerated voting rights, gun control and abortion rights.
34% : If the Democrats were to win the House, they could remove Trump.
31% : There was no appearance of obstruction of justice or perjury, as there was in the documents case against Trump.
31% : Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida responds that while Trump might be the president he will honor the extradition clause of the constitution to deliver him from Mar-a-Lago as a fugitive from justice.
30% : The reason is that now, according to this scenario, the 119th Congress, sworn in on 3 January 2025, could reject the electors from states for Trump by deciding that he is an insurrectionist.
26% : If there is a deadlock, the Ginsberg brief argues, the House still would have an option to remove Trump.
26% : All along, throughout the entire campaign year, that would mean that Trump has never been qualified.
25% : But before that would have taken place, the House could vote that Trump is excluded from a 12th amendment ballot because he was disqualified under the 14th amendment, section 3.
24% : Biden federalizes them, but the Republican governors proclaim that he has usurped power to keep himself in office illegitimately and that Trump is the truly elected president.
16% : Hur was an associate to deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, who defended attorney general William Barr's misrepresentation of a redacted version of the Mueller report on Russian interference in the presidential election of 2016 to assist Trump.
13% : If the Republicans win control of the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, refusing to whip the vote for Trump, could allow a number of Republican senators to vote for Trump's disqualification, which would void his electoral votes by both chambers.
11% : All the events of 2024 converge:The US supreme court's likely ruling in Trump v Anderson denying Colorado's disqualification of Trump under the constitution's 14th amendment, section 3; the exoneration of Joe Biden by special counsel Robert Hur for handling documents while sideswiping him as near senile; the ruling on Trump's immunity; the trial for his coup attempt; and Texas Governor Greg Abbott's defiance of federal court rulings in deploying his national guard to the border, supported by other Republican governors who have mobilized their guard units in similar acts of nullification - all these happenings could hurtle to a convulsive confrontation.
*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.