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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of just 1.0 point separating the most left-leaning from the most centrist headline. Both CNN and the New York Times relied on the standard legal verb "strikes down" (or its passive equivalent "struck down") to describe the court's action, and neither headline introduced overtly charged language. The primary structural difference was one of sentence order: CNN's headline placed "Trump's 75-country immigrant visa ban" first, foregrounding the policy before the judicial action, while the Times led with the actor — "Judge Strikes Down" — before naming the policy. Scorers flagged CNN's passive construction and subject placement as a mild left-leaning signal, though "struck down" is a conventional legal term used across the political spectrum. Overall, both outlets presented a factual, restrained account with no meaningful ideological divide in their framing.