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Supreme Court overturns constitutional right to abortion

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In one of the most anticipated rulings in decades, the court overturned Roe , which first declared a constitutional right to abortion in 1973, and Planned Parenthood v. The decision followed the leak in early May of a draft opinion showing that a majority of the justices were privately poised to take that step.

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In a historic term, momentum to move the law often came from the five justices to the chief’s right

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Bruen was the court’s first major ruling on gun rights in over a decade. The court had ruled in 2008 that the Second Amendment protects the right to have a firearm in the home, and in 2010 it had affirmed that both states and the federal government must respect that right. In Kennedy v. And in West Virginia v.

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