To understand this Supreme Court, watch Clarence Thomas

Jul 09, 2021 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -4% Center

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    8% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    38% 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 court upheld the Affordable Care Act, for a third time, in a 7-2 ruling."
Positive
22% Conservative
"On the ideological flip side, he voted to uphold the Affordable Care Act."
Positive
16% Conservative
"The justices are also still considering taking up a case on affirmative action at Harvard University."
Positive
12% Conservative
"Abortion, gun rights, and state funding for religious schools are all on the docket."
Positive
2% Conservative
"But next term, with some blockbuster cases on abortion and gun rights already on the docket, could see the Thomas court take on a very different meaning."
Positive
0% Conservative
"He has long been a critic of affirmative action."
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-28% Liberal
"Earlier this year a solo concurrence he wrote in 2019 associating abortion with eugenics began to gain traction in lower federal courts."
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-30% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : The court upheld the Affordable Care Act, for a third time, in a 7-2 ruling.
58% : On the ideological flip side, he voted to uphold the Affordable Care Act.
56% : The justices are also still considering taking up a case on affirmative action at Harvard University.
51% : Abortion, gun rights, and state funding for religious schools are all on the docket.
50% : But next term, with some blockbuster cases on abortion and gun rights already on the docket, could see the "Thomas court" take on a very different meaning.
36% : He has long been a critic of affirmative action.
35% : Earlier this year a solo concurrence he wrote in 2019 associating abortion with eugenics began to gain traction in lower federal courts.

*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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