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Meet Leonard Leo - Trump's most powerful weapon in his religious war on woke

Nov 15, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -8% Center

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    18% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -39% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Overall Sentiment

19% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : "Seidel, a lawyer and author of The American Crusade: How the Supreme Court is Weaponizing Religious Freedom, describes Leo as the "spider at the centre of the web of the conservative legal movement", and said that when he was writing his book on the Supreme Court, one particular quote stuck out for him.
44% : We do know that he, along with the Koch brothers, for instance, put a ton of money behind some of the groups that are behind Project 2025" - referring to the political initiative to promote right-wing policies in order to reshape the federal government after Trump assumes the presidency.
24% : He crafted the list of potential justices Trump released during his 2016 presidential campaign, advising him on selecting Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett (who replaced the liberal justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg) for the Supreme Court.

*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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