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ShazzieB

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3. So was it 5-4 or 6-3? Make up your mind, CNN. 😠
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 03:55 PM
Jun 2022

From the first paragraph:

"The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision overturned Roe v. Wade..."

From the last paragraph:

"Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion. The court’s other five conservatives, including Chief Justice John Roberts, joined in the judgment, which was opposed by the three liberal justices."

I presume the last paragraph is the correct one, but it's annoying when an article from a major news source contradicts itself.

And yes, I know it doesn’t technically matter if the majority was 5 or 6. But the first paragraph made me think for a moment that there was at least one conservative justice who hadn't completely gone over to the dark side. I should have known better, of course!

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