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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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Would they strike down Roe and Casey , as lawyers for Mississippi urged them to do, or would they stop short of formally overruling those cases but still uphold the state’s ban? The only real question was how far the justices might go. And when the Supreme Court issued its ruling in the case on June 23, Roberts was on board.

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