Supreme Court mistakenly posts draft of abortion ruling
Supreme Court,Abortion,Roe V Wade,Women's Issues
The Supreme Court mistakenly posted a ruling to its website on Wednesday for a pending abortion-related decision.
Why it matters: An early version of a ruling in a reproductive rights case has now been released twice in two years.
A leaked draft of the court's landmark decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was obtained by Politico weeks before the opinion was announced in June 2022.
The leaked document and the final ruling in that case were substantially the same.
State of play: It's unknown if the document was a draft, the final decision, or neither option. Bloomberg obtained the opinion when it was briefly posted to the SCOTUS website.
The document indicated that the court voted 6-3 to allow abortions in Idaho emergency rooms.
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