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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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Environmental Protection Agency , one of the final cases released before this year’s summer recess, the court reversed a lower-court ruling that had interpreted the Clean Air Act to give the EPA expansive powers over carbon emissions. And in West Virginia v.

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