Speaker summary
57%15 analyzed articles/videos592.667 analyzed words
BS Summary: These Justice Elena Kagan results contain 19 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Negativity Bias, and Appeal to Emotion, with Quote-first Misdirection as the most egregious example at 25.6% saturation with 153.144 hits. Analysis detected 1,273.684 faulty-reasoning hits from 592.667 analyzed words across 15 articles, generating a BS Score of 10.2% and a BS Rank of 12% (25,004 of 28,364 speakers). This Justice Elena Kagan is better (less manipulative) than 88.20% of the peer group.

Ranking context

Position among analyzed speakers

12% percentile
025507510011.8% percentile
10.2% BS Score15 analyzed videos592.7 analyzed words

Reasoning profile

Selected profile versus the sitewide rate

SpeakerSitewideShared scale 0–50%
0.0%10%20%30%40%50%Quote-first MisdirectionSitewide 0.0%Speaker 25.6%25.6%Framing EffectSitewide 26.9%Speaker 1.3%1.3%Slippery SlopeSitewide 1.7%Speaker 16.4%16.4%IndoctrinationSitewide 0.0%Speaker 12.9%12.9%Ad HominemSitewide 2.2%Speaker 12.9%12.9%Availability HeuristicSitewide 9.1%Speaker 19.4%19.4%AnecdotalSitewide 5.2%Speaker 15.5%15.5%Unattributed QuoteSitewide 1.1%Speaker 7.8%7.8%Appeal to EmotionSitewide 15.9%Speaker 22.4%22.4%Appeal to AuthoritySitewide 11.1%Speaker 4.6%4.6%

Sitewide departure map

Above the diagonal means this profile uses the pattern more often

0.0%0.0%10%10%20%20%30%30%40%40%50%50%Framing Effect: Speaker 1.3%, sitewide 26.9%Quote-first Misdirection: Speaker 25.6%, sitewide 0.0%Negativity Bias: Speaker 23.3%, sitewide 19.2%Appeal to Emotion: Speaker 22.4%, sitewide 15.9%Availability Heuristic: Speaker 19.4%, sitewide 9.1%Slippery Slope: Speaker 16.4%, sitewide 1.7%Anecdotal: Speaker 15.5%, sitewide 5.2%Ad Hominem: Speaker 12.9%, sitewide 2.2%Indoctrination: Speaker 12.9%, sitewide 0.0%Appeal to Authority: Speaker 4.6%, sitewide 11.1%Hasty Generalization: Speaker 5.8%, sitewide 8.1%Unattributed Quote: Speaker 7.8%, sitewide 1.1%In-Group Bias: Speaker 4.1%, sitewide 6.9%Post Hoc (False Cause): Speaker 6.5%, sitewide 3.3%Optimism Bias: Speaker 2.0%, sitewide 6.0%Ambiguity (Equivocation): Speaker 5.2%, sitewide 0.8%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias: Speaker 3.9%, sitewide 3.1%Burden of Proof: Speaker 2.4%, sitewide 0.4%Begging the Question: Speaker 2.0%, sitewide 1.7%Framing EffectSitewide rateSpeaker rate

Analyzed articles and videos

Justice Kagan Rejects Charge that Supreme Court Is "Rubber Stamp" for Trump Administration32%
Reason.com41%By Jonathan H. Adler14%7/24/2026, 12:16:20 AM
How the Roberts Court Is Blowing Up American Politics51%
www.thebulwark.com72%By Kim Wehle0%7/9/2026, 9:54:37 AM
The Roberts court is leading America backward on race.88%
Slate69%By David H. Gans0%7/8/2026, 9:40:00 AM
First Amendment wins at Supreme Court to the horror of liberal justices59%
Washington Examiner74%By Hans von Spakovsky0% Connor Bolster58%7/6/2026, 8:00:00 PM
The Psychological Effects of Ending Temporary Protected Status40%
Psychology Today43%By Allan E. Barsky PhD0% MSW66% JD0%7/3/2026, 10:52:55 PM
The Roberts Court and the Disappearing Congress47%
Washington Monthly52%By Peter M. Shane0%7/1/2026, 1:39:56 AM
Supreme Court Extends Privacy Protections to Phone Location Data23%
KQED61%By Ayah Ali-Ahmad74%6/30/2026, 11:00:47 AM
In Big Win for Fourth Amendment Advocates, the Supreme Court Says 'Geofence Warrants' Count as a 'Search'41%
Reason.com41%By Damon Root50%6/29/2026, 4:50:52 PM
Supreme Court enshrines Trump’s racist BS into law72%
Daily Kos84%By Lisa Needham97%6/25/2026, 11:01:00 PM
Sam Alito Wrote One of the Cruelest Opinions of in Recent Memory42%
Slate Magazine69%By Alexis Romero0%6/25/2026, 9:53:30 PM