Court House News Service Article RatingWith unhurried schedule, Supreme Court gives Trump gift of time
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24% Somewhat Conservative
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60% ReliableFair
- Policy Leaning
50% Medium Conservative
- Politician Portrayal
94% Negative
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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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Overall Sentiment
19% Positive
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| Sentence | Sentiment | Bias |
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| "Trump suggested the court follow the normal course of business, allowing the D.C. Circuit to review the case first." | Positive | 38% Conservative |
| "Trump then turned to the Supreme Court on Feb. 12, asking the justices to pause the appeal panel ruling so he could ask the full D.C. Circuit to review the case." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "It is still possible that the court reaches a conclusion on the merits, either affirming the ruling below -- that Trump does not have presidential immunity for his actions within the indictment because they were not part of his official duties -- or overturning the decision and finding that he is immune from prosecution." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "What the court may be trying to ask the parties to do is to go through the indictment and try to see which of the allegations in the indictment are really part of the president's duties and hence for which he should have immunity rather than all or nothing, said Alan Morrison, the associate dean for public interest and public service law at George Washington University Law School." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Part of the problem is that the Justice Department had no sense of urgency on trying Trump to begin with, Morrison said." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "The Supreme Court handed Trump an assist in this goal with his D.C. trial, where Trump claims his role as the country's former chief executive absolves him of any charges." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "The court scheduled Trump's primary ballot disqualification case two days after Trump submitted his appeal." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Trump faces a total of 91 criminal charges across multiple indictments." | Negative | -60% Liberal |
| "Trump suggested the court follow the normal course of business, allowing the D.C. Circuit to review the case first." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "The Supreme Court's decision to hear Donald Trump's immunity appeal has given the former president the gift of time as his many legal battles converge with the upcoming presidential election." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "The fact that they took this case, works in Trump's favor, said Michael Gerhardt, a law professor at the University of North Carolina." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Trump then turned to the Supreme Court on Feb. 12, asking the justices to pause the appeal panel ruling so he could ask the full D.C. Circuit to review the case." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "The longer they litigate this -- the longer they take to decide it -- that works in Trump's favor." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "If the court takes a similar route -- providing the lower courts with a guide for the parameters of official presidential actions -- there could be additional work for the lower courts to do to decide if Trump's actions were official." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "The high court has put off reviewing Donald Trump's immunity appeal since December, narrowing the chances that his D.C. trial will proceed before the 2024 election." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "While the question is similar to Trump's absolute immunity question, it differs in that it is more narrow and could require the court to do a more thorough analysis of his D.C. indictment." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "The D.C. Circuit heard arguments on Trump's appeal in January, issuing a ruling against the former president's immunity claim in February." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "The justices did not respond to Trump's immunity application for two weeks after the briefs were filed in the case." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Comparing the court's scheduling on Trump's immunity case to other cases that have moved more quickly has left the court under scrutiny." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "The justices sat on Trump's emergency application for two weeks before issuing a briefing schedule." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "The delay posed by the court's decision to put off hearing Trump's appeal until April makes it very difficult for the D.C. trial to proceed before the 2024 election." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "The justices were first asked to settle the issue of Trump's presidential immunity claim in early December." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "While some legal experts agree the court should face scrutiny for how Trump's immunity case is proceeding, others shift the blame elsewhere." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "The timeline set out by the justices makes it likely that Donald Trump's trial for charges related to attempting to overturn the 2020 election will not be resolved before the 2024 election." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "The Supreme Court handed Trump an assist in this goal with his D.C. trial, where Trump claims his role as the country's former chief executive absolves him of any charges." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "The Supreme Court handed Trump an assist in this goal with his D.C. trial, where Trump claims his role as the country's former chief executive absolves him of any charges." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "The court scheduled Trump's primary ballot disqualification case two days after Trump submitted his appeal." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "The court scheduled Trump's primary ballot disqualification case two days after Trump submitted his appeal." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Trump faces a total of 91 criminal charges across multiple indictments." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
69% : Trump suggested the court follow the normal course of business, allowing the D.C. Circuit to review the case first.53% : Trump then turned to the Supreme Court on Feb. 12, asking the justices to pause the appeal panel ruling so he could ask the full D.C. Circuit to review the case.
44% : It is still possible that the court reaches a conclusion on the merits, either affirming the ruling below -- that Trump does not have presidential immunity for his actions within the indictment because they were not part of his official duties -- or overturning the decision and finding that he is immune from prosecution.
42% : "What the court may be trying to ask the parties to do is to go through the indictment and try to see which of the allegations in the indictment are really part of the president's duties and hence for which he should have immunity rather than all or nothing," said Alan Morrison, the associate dean for public interest and public service law at George Washington University Law School.
39% : "Part of the problem is that the Justice Department had no sense of urgency on trying Trump to begin with," Morrison said.
34% : The Supreme Court handed Trump an assist in this goal with his D.C. trial, where Trump claims his role as the country's former chief executive absolves him of any charges.
33% : The court scheduled Trump's primary ballot disqualification case two days after Trump submitted his appeal.
20% : Trump faces a total of 91 criminal charges across multiple indictments.
*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.