United States | A SCOTUS snafu

What to make of the US Supreme Court’s latest abortion ruling

The justices’ rulings sometimes seem deliberately hard to follow

Reproductive rights activists demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, DC
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Editor’s update: On June 27th the Supreme Court released its ruling in Moyle v United States. The published opinions match those in the document that was briefly posted in error on the court’s website the day before.

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