Supreme Court arguments on emergency room abortions

Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Alex Wong/Getty Images/FileIn today’s Supreme Court hearing on the Biden administration challenge to aspects of Idaho’s strict abortion ban, US Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar put forward arguments seeking to appeal to conservative justices who just two years ago ruled that states should have the ability to prohibit the procedure.The dispute, stemming from the Justice Department’s marquee response to the high court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022, turns on whether federal mandates for hospital emergency room…