Supreme Court mistakenly posts draft of abortion ruling

• 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.
• Justice Clarence Thomas, Justice Samuel Alito and Justice Neil Gorsuch all voted against upholding the lower court ruling, according to the document.

The latest: Patricia McCabe, a SCOTUS spokesperson, confirmed in a statement that the Supreme Court's Publications Unit uploaded the document in error to the website.

• "The court's opinion in these cases will be issued in due course," McCabe said.

Catch up quick: The case weighed whether a federal law requiring hospitals to provide emergency care overrides Idaho's strict abortion ban.

• It centered on the 1986 Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), passed to prevent hospitals from refusing emergency care to patients who couldn't pay.

Zoom in: The ruling draft doesn't resolve the core issues of the case, per Bloomberg.

• The draft ruling indicates the court would lift a stay placed on a federal district court order, but doesn't resolve questions about how state abortion bans and federal directives on emergency care mesh.

Worth noting: The ruling seen on the document is subject to change.

• The Supreme Court has days left to issue some of its most significant rulings of the term, including a case brought forward by former President Trump regarding whether presidents can have immunity for acts committed while in office.

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