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Donald Trump gets bad legal news from D.C. while in New York court

  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -63% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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-57% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Trump's defense team argued in a court filing to Mehta last month that the lawsuits -- which were brought against Trump by a handful of police officers and Democratic lawmakers who were at the Capitol during the attack -- should be paused while his federal election subversion charges play out in D.C.That case, brought by Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith, is set to appear before the U.S. Supreme Court next week as justices consider Trump's argument that presidential immunity protects him from facing criminal charges for actions he took while in office.
41% : The former president has sought to use the presidential immunity defense to shield himself from a plethora of criminal and civil challenges.
29% : Mehta on Thursday rejected the request, ordering Trump to provide a "detailed description of the basis for his immunity defense" regarding the lawsuits by May 1.
28% : The order by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta was issued while Trump appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court for day three of jury selection in his criminal hush-money trial, in which Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection to a payment made to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election.
20% : A federal judge ruled on Thursday that lawsuits filed against Donald Trump over his actions tied to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol were allowed to advance despite the former president's push to pause litigation amid his related criminal case in Washington, D.C.

*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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