Financial Times Article Rating

Conservative US legal titan Ted Olson dies aged 84

Nov 13, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    34% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    50% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    34% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    8% Positive

Bias Score Analysis

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17% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Theodore Olson, the renowned conservative lawyer who fought to legalise same-sex marriage and was instrumental in securing a presidential win for George W Bush in 2000, has died aged 84.
47% : A federal court decision striking down the state ban was seen as a precursor to the Supreme Court's ruling two years later in Obergefell vs Hodges, which enshrined the constitutional right to same-sex marriages nationwide.
7% : Olson later teamed up with David Boies, who had represented Gore in Bush vs Gore, to fight against a ban in California on same-sex marriage.

*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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