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How the coverage framed it

With a bias spread of just 1.0 points, coverage of this story was largely uniform across outlets, and no sharp ideological divide is present. Most headlines treated the case as a straightforward legal proceeding, with neutral verbs like "weighs" (New York Post) and "opens" dominating. The modest variation that does exist is primarily tonal rather than ideological. On the slightly left-leaning end, Axios framed the term through a political lens with "A Trump-sized shadow looms," centering the story on executive-branch drama rather than the legal merits. On the modestly right-leaning end, the Washington Examiner's phrase "costly climate change lawsuit" introduces a cost-skepticism framing absent elsewhere. NPR's use of "blockbuster" added drama without clear ideological direction. The Los Angeles Times' "sounds wary" offered a neutral observation of the Court's posture. Overall, outlets converged on describing a Court examining state climate litigation, differing mainly in which contextual angle they chose to emphasize.