Common Dreams95%
Brennan Center Reacts to Supreme Court Ruling on Birthright Citizenship 66%
By Newswire Editor96%
6/30/2026, 3:01:50 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Confirmation Bias, and Appeal to Emotion, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 61.9% saturation with 99 hits. Analysis detected 649 faulty-reasoning hits from 160 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 60.4% and a BS Rank of 66% (6,172 of 17,815 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 65.40% of the article peer group.
Today in Trump v.
Barbara the U.S.
Supreme Court upheld the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of citizenship to everyone born in the United States.
Thomas Wolf, director of democracy initiatives at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, had the following reaction:
“Today’s ruling is the right one amid an avalanche of Supreme Court opinions undermining our democracy.
The Court could not have defensibly ruled any differently.
The Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed citizenship to everyone born here over 150 years ago.
The Supreme Court affirmed that 20 years later in Wong Kim Ark.
Meanwhile, the Court has been on an anti-democratic rampage.
“In just the past few weeks alone, the Court further undermined the Voting Rights Act, encouraged more aggressive partisan gerrymandering, dangerously expanded presidential power over federal agencies, and further depleted protections for immigrants.
This ruling does not make up for all the damage the Court has done this term.”
Confirmation Bias
46.3%Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
5.6%Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
10%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
8.1%Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
15.6%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
56.3%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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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
20.6%Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
8.1%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
13.1%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
5.6%False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
20.6%Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
26.3%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
36.3%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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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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Genetic Fallacy
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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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160 words analyzed.
Analysis
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