Noah Feldman, Columnist

Idaho Abortion Draft Ruling Shows Supreme Court Ducking a Fight

In Moyle v. United States, the center of the bench declined to participate in a culture war during an election year, a document briefly posted on the court's website shows.

June 26, 2024 at 7:56 PM UTC

By Noah Feldman

Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People."

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For the second time in two years, an abortion-related decision from the Supreme Court has appeared before its due date. Unlike the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, leaked by a person or persons still unknown, the latest case, about Idaho’s harsh abortion ban, got out by accident when someone at the court briefly posted the opinion on the court’s website. Eagle-eyed Bloomberg Law reporters noticed.

While the opinion isn’t official as of this writing, here are the major takeaways from the inadvertently shared Moyle v. United States.