Justice Department activates untested court for ‘alien terrorist’ deportations 100%
By Associated Press60%
7/19/2026, 9:05:13 PM
Keywords: Politics
BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Status Quo Bias, Primacy Effect, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Unattributed Quote as the most egregious example at 89.7% saturation with 78 hits. Analysis detected 423 faulty-reasoning hits from 87 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 100% and a BS Rank of 100% (46 of 21,197 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 99.80% of the article peer group.
WASHINGTON — 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.
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
37.9%Availability Heuristic
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
48.3%Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
51.7%Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
10.3%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
48.3%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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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
51.7%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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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Personal Incredulity
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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87 words analyzed.
Analysis
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