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Female Supreme Court justices push back most strongly on Idaho abortion ban
A divided Supreme Court seemed skeptical that Idaho’s strict abortion ban conflicts with a federal emergency care law, but there appeared to be a split by gender as well as ideology during the nearly two hours of argument.
The four female justices, including conservative Amy Coney Barrett, pushed back the hardest against Idaho’s assertion that its law, which prohibits doctors from performing an abortion except when a woman’s life is in danger, supersedes the federal emergency care statute EMTALA.
Doctors face up to five years in prison for violating Idaho’s law.
The liberal justices in particular asked detailed questions about what would constitute a medical emergency, zeroing in on complications that would rob a woman of her reproductive organs or put her at risk of sepsis.
The case centers on a federal law known as EMTALA, or the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, which requires federally funded hospitals to provide stabilizing care to emergency room patients no matter their ability to pay.
The Biden administration argues that even in states where abortion is banned, EMTALA says hospitals must be allowed to terminate pregnancies in rare emergencies where a patient’s life or health is at serious risk.
Barrett had sharp questions for Idaho’s attorney Joshua Turner over just how much discretion doctors really have to make decisions in medical emergencies that may not be life threatening.
Turner argued that the laws allows decisions to be made on a case-by-case basis, but Barrett was critical of that argument and accused Turner of “hedging.”
Barrett’s questioning doesn’t always give an indication of how she will vote, and the three liberal justices need at least two conservatives to side with them in order for the Biden administration to win the case.
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Cort Dennison, one of the University of Washington’s more decorated linebackers over the past decade and a half, has joined Thomas Ford’s new Idaho coaching staff as its defensive coordinator, according to ESPN’s Pete Thamel.
Dennison, 35, comes to the Vandals from Missouri State, where he was the defensive coordinator for one seasons for the FCS soon to be FBS program.
Considered one of college football’s rising assistant coaches and a proven recruiter, Dennison has been trying to rebuild his career since getting fired at Louisville in 2021 while serving the second of two stints with the Cardinals.
Sources: Cort Dennison has accepted the job as the defensive coordinator at Idaho. He was last the inside LB coach at Missouri State. He’s worked as an assistant at Louisville for two stints. He’s worked on staffs at Utah in 2023 and coached outside LBs at Oregon in 2018.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) December 26, 2024
According to reports, he was involved in a domestic dispute with another Louisville athletic department employee in which all allegations against him later were withdrawn.
A Salt Lake City native, Dennison went home and worked at Utah in 2023 as a defensive quality control coach for Kyle Whittingham.
For Louisville, he joined an ACC team headed up by coach Bobby Petrino in 2014-17 and again in 2019-21 for coach Scott Satterfield, holding a variety of assignments that included co-defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach.
Peter Sirmon, former UW linebackers coach in 2012-13 and now the California defensive coordinator, worked with Dennison as the Louisville DC in 2017.
Dennison spent the 2018 season with Oregon as its linebackers coach.
As a player, Dennison was recruited to the UW in 2007 by Tyrone Willingham’s staff. By 2011, the 6-foot-1, 234-pound linebacker was a team captain for Steve Sarkisian, a 30-game starter and a second-team All-Pac-12 selection who topped the conference in tackles with 128.
Dennison finished with 15 tackles in his final Husky outing, a 67-56 loss in the Alamo Bowl to Baylor and Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Robert Griffin III.
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