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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. Most headlines — including those from The Washington Post, CBS News, NBC, and Neutral News — used neutral, procedural verbs such as "agrees to review," "hear dispute," "decide," and "review," presenting the Supreme Court's action as a straightforward legal process with no ideological coloring. The modest exception was Fox News, whose headline described "Trump's mass detention policy" — the phrase "mass detention" carrying a slightly more charged connotation than the plain "mandatory detention" or "mandatory ICE detention" language used elsewhere. Fox also framed the Court's action as hearing "a challenge," subtly emphasizing that the policy is contested, though that framing is not inherently ideological. These differences are minor; the dominant characteristic of this coverage was shared factual, procedural language across the political spectrum.