Supreme Court Accidentally Posts Ruling Appearing To Limit Idaho Abortion Ban

The Supreme Court inadvertently posted a copy of a ruling on its website Wednesday in the Biden administration’s challenge to Idaho’s abortion ban, a court spokesperson confirmed.

The decision that briefly appeared on the website stated the case would be dismissed as “improvidently granted,” with the majority ruling to reinstate a lower court order allowing hospitals to perform abortions in emergency situations, Bloomberg reported. The justices allowed Idaho’s abortion ban to remain in effect until a decision was issued when they took the case in January.

“The opinion in Moyle v. United States, No. 23-726, and Idaho v. United States, No. 23-727, has not been released,” Patricia McCabe, the Supreme Court’s public information officer, told the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation. “The Court’s Publications Unit inadvertently and briefly uploaded a document to the Court’s website.”

“The Court’s opinion in these cases will be issued in due course,” McCabe continued.

The ruling reviewed by Bloomberg indicated the justices split 6-3. In a concurrence, Justice Elena Kagan reportedly wrote the decision “will prevent Idaho from enforcing its abortion ban when the termination of a pregnancy is needed to prevent serious harms to a woman’s health.”

Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented, according to Bloomberg.

“The Government’s preemption theory is plainly unsound,” Alito wrote in the briefly published