Supreme Court sits on potentially blockbuster abortion case

The Supreme Court is sitting on a petition in a Mississippi abortion case that could blow the lid off Roe v. Wade.

The case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, has been before the court since September without a word from the justices. It has been considered at the court’s conferences eight times and each time left on the table. That likely means that fewer than four justices so far have voted to take up the case. Another possibility is that the court has already rejected the case and one of the conservative justices is working on a dissent that will be released in one of the court’s orders list.