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State Department spokesperson Matt Miller told NBC News that the U.S. would continue to monitor proceedings as the men appealed, noting that the U.S. wouldn’t pass judgment on the three’s guilt.

In fairness, the Neelemans do not pass judgment on others’ life choices in the Times’ article, save for sharing their unsurprising anti-abortion views.

It enabled the court to produce a result that doesn’t appear doctrinally inconsistent with Dobbs; that didn’t pass judgment on the extremely dubious attacks by lower courts on the FDA’s approval procedures; and that sidestepped a political furor.

How can these insignificant nothings pass judgment on me, the greatest person who's ever lived, the world's leading expert on everything?

The Washington Post's Erik Wemple accepted Berliner's invitation to examine NPR's work and pass judgment on the network's alleged bias.