AP News51%
Justice Department activates untested court for ‘alien terrorist’ deportations 25%
By ERIC TUCKER37%
7/19/2026, 1:40:05 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 6 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Biased Writer Voice, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 23.6% saturation with 34 hits. Analysis detected 180 faulty-reasoning hits from 144 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 38% and a BS Rank of 25% (14,082 of 18,719 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 75.20% of the article peer group.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has filed a first-ever petition to a secretive and dormant court created 30 years ago to consider government requests to deport so-called “alien terrorists” from the United States.
The Alien Terrorist Removal Court was established in 1996 but had never received a petition until this past Wednesday, when the Justice Department filed an application seeking the removal of an individual whose name is withheld from the single-page document posted on the court’s website.
The court has been dormant since its creation, having received — until last week — no applications and conducting no hearings, according to a summary posted on the Federal Judicial Center website.
It is comprised of five judges selected by Chief Justice John Roberts.
The petition was first reported by Court Watch, an independent news site.
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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No True Scotsman
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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144 words analyzed.
Analysis
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