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The Supreme Court invented a special legal rule solely to screw Planned Parenthood

Anti-abortion protestors gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court. | Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images About a year ago, the Supreme Court handed down a baffling decision in Medina v. Planned Parenthood (2025). In Medina, South Carolina committed an obvious violation of federal Medicaid law, but the Court’s Republican majority seemed to bend over backward to prevent the patients affected by this legal violation from suing to enforce their rights. Among other things, the Court’s opinion in Medina was at odds with a decision the justices handed down just two years earlier in Health and Hospital...