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How the coverage framed it

The bias spread here is modest at 2.0 points, reflecting a relatively narrow range of framing rather than a sharp ideological divide. The Hill anchored the neutral end with purely procedural language — "scorecard, by the numbers" and "Tracking Trump's Supreme Court emergency applications" — presenting the story as a factual accounting exercise with no evaluative charge. The Atlantic moved noticeably left by foregrounding judgment: its headline "0 for 26: The Trump Administration's Astonishing Losing Record" leads with a stark numerical shorthand and pairs it with the word "Astonishing," a term our scorers flagged as charged condemnation rather than neutral description. The phrase "Losing Record" further borrows sports-defeat connotations to emphasize failure. So while both outlets covered the same underlying data, The Atlantic editorially characterized the outcome, whereas The Hill confined itself to tracking and enumeration, leaving interpretation to the reader.