Hi there everyone it's 4 o'clock in the east another day another issue

surrounding the United States Supreme Court's transparency and

confidence the court which still has Supreme Court's transparency and confidence.

The Court, which still has decisions on a dozen argued case yet to be announced this term,

today inadvertently posted online a document related to an abortion case, which was obtained A

inadvertently posted online a document related to an abortion case, which was obtained by Bloomberg law.

A Supreme Court Spokeswoman confirmed that the document was, quote,

inadvertently and briefly uploaded, but noted that the ruling has not been released

and would be in due course.

NBC News has not independently verified the document.

It is not known if it is a draft decision, the actual decision, or neither of those things.

The document has since been removed from its website.

But what the document did signal was that the court appears set to allow emergency room doctors in the state of Idaho to perform life-saving abortions, which they are unable to do under that state's Defense of Life Act that passed in August of

2022. The law is one of the most extreme abortion bans in the country. It

prohibits nearly all abortions and does not allow for exceptions when the life of the mother is at risk.

While this potential ruling by the Supreme Court sounds and feels like good news, like a win for abortion rights advocates. In actuality it amounts to a

punt by the highest court. It simply means that a ruling from the lower court which had paused Idaho's

ban on abortion health care, would be reinstated

and that the court did not rule on any of the merits of this case.

Justice Katanji Brown Jackson makes all of these points in writing this quote today's decision is not a

victory for pregnant patients in Idaho it is delay while this court dawdles and

the country waits pregnant people experiencing emergency medical conditions

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