Supreme Court 'inadvertently' exposes opinion that would restore emergency abortion access in Idaho

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The decision posted online shows that the justices voted to dismiss the dispute from their docket.

A court spokesperson confirmed that a “document” related to the Idaho abortion case had been “inadvertently” released, but stressed the decision isn’t yet official. | Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty ImagesAccess to emergency abortions in Idaho might soon be restored if a Supreme Court decision briefly posted on its website Wednesday is finalized in the days ahead.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had been poised to hear arguments on the conflict before the Supreme CourtBut the Bloomberg report said the decision revealed that the high court is poised to dismiss the case as “improvidently granted.” That action, rarely taken by the court, typically signals that the justices, after initially agreeing to resolve a legal dispute, had second thoughts and for some reason chose to dismiss the issue without weighing in on the merits.

Fatima Goss Graves, the president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, said in a statement that she’s “furious that this draft appears to leave the door open for the Supreme Court to end emergency abortion care in the coming months or years.” According to the posted opinion, four justices dissented from the court’s decision to dismiss the Idaho dispute: conservatives Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch and liberal Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Jackson, the sole liberal dissenter, said the high court was wrong to back away from resolving the case. The Supreme Court is in the height of its decision season and released opinions Wednesday in two other cases. One ruling effectivelyreined in the scope of a federal law

 

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