(Cliff Owen/AP)Ruth Bader Ginsburg's concurrence in today's big Supreme Court case striking down Texas's abortion law is drawing plenty of attention. Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her Supreme Court chambers. It's being cheered by abortion-rights advocates for lending credence to their argument that the health risks of legal abortion are being overblown by abortion opponents seeking to restrict it via laws like Texas's. Merriam-Webster informs us that faute de mieux (pronounced foht-duh-MYUH) "is a French phrase meaning 'for lack of something better.' And while making that decision, Ginsburg broke out a little French.

Source: Washington Post June 27, 2016 21:21 UTC