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How the coverage framed it

Coverage of this story was largely uniform across outlets, with a bias spread of just one point separating the most left-leaning from the most right-leaning headline. All three outlets treated the deportation itself as a straightforward fact, differing mainly in how they described the court involved. CNN, the most left-leaning outlet, characterized it as a "secretive court," a phrase that implies institutional opacity or cause for concern. The Boston Globe took the most neutral path, describing the same body as a "long-dormant court," a factual legal descriptor carrying no evaluative weight. Axios, the most right-leaning, avoided describing the court's character altogether, instead foregrounding the official label "Alien Terrorist" in quotation marks with a DOJ attribution, presenting the government's own terminology without editorializing. The substantive difference across all three amounts to word choice around the court's nature rather than any meaningful ideological divide.