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Abortion Ruling Ups Calls for Court Reform
All anyone can talk about this week is the Supreme Court, and with good reason. The justices this week let Texas’s six-week ban on abortions go into effect and, nearly 24 hours later, said they wouldn’t block it for now in an order that lacked both a thorough explanation and signatures.