There are no Supreme Court vacancies, but some judges are acting like there might be 24%
By Julian Mark0%
5/30/2026, 10:00:01 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Quote-first Misdirection, and Framing Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 64.6% saturation with 53 hits. Analysis detected 238 faulty-reasoning hits from 82 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 36.9% and a BS Rank of 24% (12,783 of 16,813 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 76.00% of the article peer group.
One judge appears to have dropped his long-standing support for birthright citizenship.
Another wrote that the federal judiciary should not demand President Donald Trump’s “homework.”
A third opened a recent dissent with a crude term for male genitalia.
COMPOSITE IMAGE: From left: Lawrence VanDyke, James C.
Ho and Andrew Oldham.
(From left: 9th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals/Reuters; Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post; Shuran Huang/For The Washington Post)
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
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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
64.6%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
15.9%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
31.7%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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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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Special Pleading
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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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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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82 words analyzed.
Analysis
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