Townhall⁠84%

This Insane Line in Ketanji Brown Jackson's Birthright Opinion Is Making the Court a Laughing Stock ⁠95%

By Joseph Chalfant⁠97%

6/30/2026, 11:00:44 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Hasty Generalization, and Availability Heuristic, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 85% saturation with 187 hits. Analysis detected 1,182 faulty-reasoning hits from 220 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 92.2% and a BS Rank of ⁠95% (1,102 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 95.00% of the article peer group.

As if the birthright citizenship case wasn’t abhorrent enough, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson managed to find a way to make it even more cringeworthy. 
Jackson decided that the landmark case that will be examined in law school classes for the next generation was the moment to drop the hyper-online Gen Z parlance of “understood the assignment” in a decision that is so baffling that one would immediately assume that it has to be fake. 
Unfortunately for legal scholars, the line is very real. 
Hidden away in the third paragraph of Jackson’s opinion, buried on the 33rd page of the decision, you can find the travesty. 
“In the aftermath of the Civil War, those who championed the Fourteenth Amendment—both within and beyond Congress—understood the assignment,” Jackson wrote. 
As you can imagine, the choice didn’t receive the warmest of welcomes. 
Unsurprisingly, this isn’t the first time that Jackson has pulled something like this. 
Last year, she employed the use of a “wait for it” in a case that found that lower courts didn’t have the power to issue universal injunctions. 
If there’s one thing Americans can take away from Jackson’s tenure on the Supreme Court, it’s that truly anyone can become a SCOTUS justice. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 28.6%Joseph Chalfant: 7.4%Townhall: 5.3%Confirmation Bias28.6%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 1.0%Townhall: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 40.5%Joseph Chalfant: 5.0%Townhall: 2.8%Availability Heuristic40.5%This article: 10.9%Joseph Chalfant: 1.7%Townhall: 0.8%Representativeness Heuristic10.9%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 1.5%Townhall: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 2.1%Townhall: 1.7%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 18.2%Joseph Chalfant: 20.7%Townhall: 11.2%Framing Effect18.2%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 0.4%Townhall: 0.4%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 0.4%Townhall: 0.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 0.0%Townhall: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 4.9%Townhall: 1.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 11.8%Joseph Chalfant: 2.1%Townhall: 1.9%Pessimism Bias11.8%This article: 72.3%Joseph Chalfant: 23.1%Townhall: 13.5%Negativity Bias72.3%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 2.2%Townhall: 1.8%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 2.1%Townhall: 1.8%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 0.0%Townhall: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 7.9%Townhall: 4.6%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 4.3%Townhall: 3.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 3.3%Townhall: 1.8%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 2.0%Townhall: 0.9%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 0.0%Townhall: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 5.9%Joseph Chalfant: 2.4%Townhall: 1.3%Recency Bias5.9%This article: 10.0%Joseph Chalfant: 0.8%Townhall: 0.6%Primacy Effect10.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 0.0%Townhall: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 11.8%Joseph Chalfant: 7.6%Townhall: 5.0%Ad Hominem11.8%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 2.8%Townhall: 2.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 6.2%Townhall: 4.4%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 10.9%Joseph Chalfant: 3.0%Townhall: 1.9%False Dilemma10.9%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 2.3%Townhall: 1.6%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 0.0%Townhall: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 51.8%Joseph Chalfant: 14.3%Townhall: 9.1%Hasty Generalization51.8%This article: 12.3%Joseph Chalfant: 1.2%Townhall: 0.6%Red Herring12.3%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 1.7%Townhall: 1.3%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 34.5%Joseph Chalfant: 19.5%Townhall: 11.1%Appeal to Emotion34.5%This article: 4.1%Joseph Chalfant: 3.3%Townhall: 2.2%Begging the Question4.1%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 5.1%Townhall: 2.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 0.8%Townhall: 0.6%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 1.4%Townhall: 1.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 0.0%Townhall: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 0.0%Townhall: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 5.5%Joseph Chalfant: 1.4%Townhall: 1.4%Anecdotal5.5%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 0.0%Townhall: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 22.7%Joseph Chalfant: 3.6%Townhall: 2.2%Ambiguity (Equivocation)22.7%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 0.0%Townhall: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 0.3%Townhall: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 22.7%Joseph Chalfant: 1.0%Townhall: 0.2%Personal Incredulity22.7%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 0.0%Townhall: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 1.6%Townhall: 0.4%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 15.0%Joseph Chalfant: 3.5%Townhall: 3.4%Unattributed Quote15.0%This article: 21.8%Joseph Chalfant: 3.1%Townhall: 3.0%Quote-first Misdirection21.8%This article: 85.0%Joseph Chalfant: 29.1%Townhall: 16.1%Biased Writer Voice85.0%This article: 10.9%Joseph Chalfant: 6.6%Townhall: 5.6%Indoctrination10.9%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 0.4%Townhall: 0.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 30.0%Joseph Chalfant: 25.6%Townhall: 13.8%Politically Right Leaning Bias30.0%This article: 0.0%Joseph Chalfant: 7.2%Townhall: 5.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

220 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker9.5%attributed speech199writer words
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Writer's voice • 16 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 26 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 50 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 22 words • 100.0% coverageKetanji Brown Jackson • 21 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 27 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 24 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Ketanji Brown Jackson

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Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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