Above the Law media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Above the Law as leaning left. We have seen it on 12 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Above the Law biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Above the Law as leaning left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Above the Law left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Above the Law as leaning left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Above the Law reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Above the Law are Ad Fontes Media: Mixed factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Above the Law has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Above the Law’s own report linked underneath.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro refused to answer reporters' questions about the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool vandalism case, which President Donald Trump has urged her to revisit. Pirro became visibly frustrated, at one point yelling, 'No! No and no! How many times do I have to say no?!'
Above the Law reported it asJudge Demands Answers From DOJ For Refusing To Dismiss Reflecting Pool Case With Prejudice (opens Above the Law in a new tab)
A federal judge has temporarily blocked Missouri from using its old congressional districts for the upcoming midterm elections. This ruling follows the Supreme Court's decision not to intervene, adding to confusion over the state's electoral map.
Above the Law reported it asMissouri Gerrymander Case Flunks Remedial Law School (opens Above the Law in a new tab)
A legal watchdog has filed bar complaints against U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and two subordinates. The complaints allege ethical violations in their attempt to charge six Democratic lawmakers over a video encouraging troops to resist unlawful orders.
Above the Law reported it asJeanine Pirro Joins The Growing List Of Trump Prosecutors With A Grievance File (opens Above the Law in a new tab)
President Trump personally intervened to push the Justice Department toward a settlement with Live Nation in an antitrust case, according to reports. The intervention reportedly occurred shortly before a trial was set to begin, following meetings between the company's CEO and White House officials.
Above the Law reported it asLive Nation’s Ticket Out Of Its Antitrust Case Apparently Came Courtesy Of Some ‘Bizarre’ White House Intervention (opens Above the Law in a new tab)
The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed a Trump executive order concerning mail-in voting to move forward, reversing decisions made by lower courts. The ruling, however, was based on procedural matters, and the legality of the order itself remains under challenge. Arizona officials have stated that current mail-in voting procedures will not change for voters in the state.
Above the Law reported it asSCOTUS Shadow Docket Hands Trump His Mail-In Ballot Wish, And Justice Jackson Is Having None Of It (opens Above the Law in a new tab)
The U.S. Supreme Court on 17 August 2026 declined for the second time to hear Donald Trump’s appeal of a $5 million jury verdict in favour of writer E. Jean Carroll. The decision leaves intact a 2023 finding that Trump sexually abused and defamed Carroll in the 1990s.
Above the Law reported it asSupreme Court Kills Trump’s E. Jean Carroll Rehearing Request (opens Above the Law in a new tab)
US prosecutors investigate Democratic fundraising firm linked to Trump trial judge's daughter
Trust 86The U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago has spent a year investigating Authentic Campaigns Inc., a Democratic fundraising firm once co-owned by Loren Merchan, daughter of the judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s hush-money trial. The probe centres on client communications and a $468 payment from Kamala Harris’s campaign.
Above the Law reported it asThe Temptation And Corruption Of Andrew Boutros (opens Above the Law in a new tab)
Alabama voters in four congressional districts cast ballots in special primaries on 11 August 2026 after Governor Kay Ivey postponed the contests following a U.S. Supreme Court decision. The new map, effective in 2027, eliminates one of the state’s two majority-Black districts, altering electoral dynamics.
Above the Law reported it asAlabama's Primary Drew 5 Percent Turnout Thanks To Supreme Court Destroying Voting Rights Act (opens Above the Law in a new tab)
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said he would charge WNBA players with assault if a foul like the one on Indiana Fever’s Sophie Cunningham occurred in Florida. The threat followed a Flagrant 2 foul by Chicago Sky’s DiJonai Carrington, who was ejected and later claimed the call was due to ‘white privilege’.
Above the Law reported it asFlorida's AG Wants To Charge WNBA Player With Crime Of Playing Basketball (opens Above the Law in a new tab)
Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta’s $1bn 'Future is for Everyone Fund' to support communities hosting data centres, alongside plans to offer free AI tools to billions. The essay also outlined a vision for personal AI agents and open-source models, while addressing concerns about job displacement and privacy.
Above the Law reported it asMark Zuckerberg Thinks Everyone Should Have A Superintelligent AI Lawyer (opens Above the Law in a new tab)
A federal judge in Alabama denied the Southern Poverty Law Center’s motion to dismiss criminal charges brought by the Trump administration, finding no evidence of vindictive prosecution. The SPLC faces 11 counts, including wire fraud and false statements to a bank. The judge criticised both sides’ rhetoric as unsuited to court.
Above the Law reported it asTrump Judge Rules SPLC Can't Prove Vindictive Prosecution Without Evidence, Which She Also Won't Let Them See (opens Above the Law in a new tab)
New Mexico filed a federal lawsuit against the US Department of Justice and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, accusing them of withholding unredacted files critical to its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch. The state says repeated requests for information were ignored or denied, hindering its probe into alleged sex crimes.
Above the Law reported it asNew Mexico sues US government for access to Epstein files (opens Above the Law in a new tab)
Who says so
3 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
High factuality
Who owns it
- Breaking MediaCorporationdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- New York, New York, United States
- Official site
- abovethelaw.com
- Seen publishing on
- abovethelaw.com
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 12
- Reports listed
- 12
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
12 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 2 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Above the Law ran the story anyway.
Across the 12 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Above the Law: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 18 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 15 September 2026. Ratings pulled 7 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Above the Law, also publishing from United States, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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