Newsweek Article Rating

Justice Alito caught in new flag firestorm

  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -34% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Overall Sentiment

11% Positive

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Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

38% : Progressive watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington wrote on X Wednesday evening that Supreme Court justices "are NOT supposed to be taking political stances like this."
18% : "It's not controversial for me, and I'm as against Donald Trump as anybody I know in this country.
18% : "Numerous critics pointed to the Appeal to Heaven flag's connections to supporters for Trump as a reason for Alito to remove himself from the former president's immunity ruling.
17% : Critics of Alito have said that the controversial symbols are reason for the justice to recuse himself from the Supreme Court's pending decision on whether Trump is covered from facing criminal prosecution under presidential immunity claims.

*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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