“A secretly recorded video, fake names, a grand jury indictment, congressional investigations – these are the building blocks of a best-selling novel rather than a case concerning the interplay of federal and state authority through the Medicaid program.”


– U.S. Federal Judge Sam Sparks, in a ruling that blocks the state from removing Planned Parenthood from Medicaid

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