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
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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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