Defense attorneys for the 29-year-old man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in 2022 say cellphone evidence places the suspect away from the area where the murders took place.
The suspect, who is not being named by The Daily Wire, plans to use cellphone tower data to show that he was out driving on the night the students were killed, but never went near their off-campus home, ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/kohbergers-alibi-disputes-location-night-idaho-student-killings/story?id=109369315" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
&#8220;[The suspect] was out driving in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2022, as he often did to hike and run and/or see the moon and stars. He drove throughout the area south of Pullman, Washington, west of Moscow, Idaho,&#8221; Anne Taylor, the suspect’s lead attorney, wrote in a new court filing.
To back this up, the defense plans to call an expert witness &#8220;to show that [the suspect’s] mobile device was south of Pullman, Washington and west of Moscow, Idaho on November 13, 2022; that [the suspect’s] mobile device did not travel east on the Moscow-Pullman Highway in the early morning hours of November 13th,&#8221; according to the court filing.
For this reason, the defense claims, the suspect’s car could not be the one seen on video surveillance driving on the Moscow-Pullman highway on the night of the murders.
The suspect has been charged with four counts of murder and one count of burglary relating to the killings of Ethan Chapin, 20; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Madison Mogen, 21, in the early morning hours of November 13, 2022, in the college town of Moscow, Idaho.
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Part of the evidence that led to the suspect’s arrest, mentioned in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-police-captured-the-man-suspected-of-killing-four-university-of-idaho-students" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously unsealed</a> probable cause affidavit, showed that police were able to narrow the timeframe of the crime to between 4:00 a.m. and 4:25 a.m. and reviewed video footage taken in the area in the time before and after the murders are believed to have occurred. Video showed a white Hyundai Elantra without a front license plate (front license plates are required in Washington and Idaho, but not in Pennsylvania, where the car was registered) in the area between 3:29 a.m. and 4:20 a.m.
The vehicle can be seen passing the off-campus residence three times before returning a fourth time around 4:04 a.m. and attempting to turn around on the road. The vehicle was next seen around 4:20 a.m. traveling away from the direction of the off-campus residence at high speed, heading in the direction of a road that eventually leads to Pullman, Washington, where the suspect attended Washington State University (WSU).
Video footage from the WSU campus showed a white Hyundai Elantra leaving the area and heading toward Moscow at around 2:53 a.m. At around 5:25 a.m., this vehicle was again observed on five cameras in Pullman and the WSU campus.
Police pulled records for white Hyundai Elantras registered at WSU on November 29 – just over two weeks after the murders were committed – and found one belonging to the man who was eventually arrested. Police reviewed the owner’s Washington state driver’s license and determined he matched the suspect’s physical description provided by one of the surviving roommates.
Police matched the suspect to the vehicle through two previous traffic stops in the months before the murders. They also learned that the suspect registered his car in Washington and received Washington plates on November 18 – five days after the murders.
Police also reviewed cell phone data to show the suspect’s phone did not ping any cellular towers near the crime scene during the relevant timeframe, but an expanded examination of cell phone data showed the phone stopped reporting data to the network at around 2:47 a.m. At that time, the white Elantra was leaving Pullman and heading toward Moscow. The phone next pinged at 4:48 a.m. in an area south of Moscow, heading back to Pullman. Cell records also showed that the suspect left his home in Pullman around 9:00 a.m. on November 13 and traveled back to Moscow.
Cell records dating back to June 2022 showed the suspect’s phone was in the crime scene area on at least 12 occasions before the murders – all but one in the late evening or early morning hours.

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The Supreme Court ruled Monday to allow an Idaho law protecting children from life-altering transgender procedures to go into effect while the law is challenged in lower courts. 
The law, passed last year, bans procedures like double mastectomies on girls who identify as boys and giving children puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, which have been linked to bone development issues and heart problems. The law also stipulates that doctors who perform transgender procedures on kids could go to prison for 10 years. The decision means the law will go into effect for the state except for two families who say their children identify as transgender who sued with the help of the ACLU claiming the law was discriminatory. 
Justices Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett all <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23a763_n7io.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sided</a> with Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador who appealed to the court to turn back a sweeping injunction placed on the law by a federal judge who completely blocked the law. Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan all dissented.
Gorsuch said that Judge B. Lynn Winmill, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-blocks-idaho-law-protecting-kids-from-transgender-procedures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blocked</a> Idaho’s law back in December, went too far in her decision.
&#8220;Ordinarily, injunctions like these may go no further than necessary to provide interim relief to the parties,&#8221; he <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/supreme-court-allows-idaho-enforce-ban-gender-affirming/story?id=108711989" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. &#8220;In this case, however, the district court went much further, prohibiting a State from enforcing any aspect of its duly enacted law against anyone.&#8221;
The ruling was the first time for the Supreme Court to weigh in on a state law shielding children from life-altering transgender procedures. Labrador <a href="https://www.ag.idaho.gov/newsroom/us-supreme-court-allows-idaho-to-enforce-law-protecting-vulnerable-children/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrated</a> the ruling, saying it was a major win for children in his state. Litigation will continue and the Supreme Court will likely hear the case on its merits at some point after the appeals process. 
“I’ve witnessed firsthand the devastating consequences of drugs and procedures used on children with gender dysphoria. And it’s a preventable tragedy,” Labrador said. “The state has a duty to protect and support all children, and that’s why I’m proud to defend Idaho’s law that ensures children are not subjected to these life-altering drugs and procedures.”
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“Those suffering from gender dysphoria deserve love, support, and medical care rooted in biological reality,” he added. “Denying the basic truth that boys and girls are biologically different hurts our kids. No one has the right to harm children, and I’m grateful that we, as the state, have the power — and duty — to protect them.”
Labrador’s appeal to the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/red-states-urge-scotus-to-back-idahos-transgender-surgery-ban-cite-daily-wires-bombshell-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was backed</a> by 19 Republican attorneys general, who argued that it would be a “devastating medical scandal” if Idaho was not allowed to protect children from transgender procedures. In recent years, over 20 states have enacted laws shielding children from transgender surgeries, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormone regimens.

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A teenager in Idaho was <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/idaho-man-arrested-attempting-provide-material-support-isis">arrested over the weekend</a> for allegedly planning to carry out a terrorist attack on Christian churches on behalf of ISIS.
Federal law enforcement officials arrested Alexander Scott Mercurio, 18, on Saturday after he pledged allegiance to ISIS and planned to attack Christian churches on April 7 using &#8220;flame-covered weapons, explosives, knives, a machete, a pipe, and ultimately firearms,&#8221; court documents say.
The FBI stumbled upon Mercurio in 2021 while conducting a criminal investigation into a fundraising network that uses cryptocurrency to fund Islamic terrorist groups.
In 2023, investigators found on his school-issued laptop numerous pieces of evidence that showed he was serious about his commitment to ISIS as well as his interest in &#8220;socialism&#8221; and &#8220;communism,&#8221; court documents say.
He told a confidential FBI informant that in his video pledging allegiance to ISIS, he would state that it was important to &#8220;respond to the call to the caliphate by killing Jews and Christians.&#8221;
He indicated that he planned to &#8220;walk to the church, pull out the pipe to light it on fire on one end, hit people in the elbows and kneecaps, force them to the ground, slit their throats with a knife or machete, start small fires, use gas cans to throw at the small fires to cause an explosion and when the police respond he will hide in a corner and attempt to grab the gun of an officer to use,&#8221; court documents said, <a href="https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article287515725.html">according</a> to the Idaho Statesmen.
He allegedly believed that by murdering Christians, he was performing &#8220;a good deed.&#8221;
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“As alleged in the complaint, the defendant swore an oath of loyalty to ISIS and planned to wage an attack in its name on churches in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho,” <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/idaho-man-arrested-attempting-provide-material-support-isis">said</a> Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “Thanks to the investigative efforts of the FBI, the defendant was taken into custody before he could act, and he is now charged with attempting to support ISIS’s mission of terror and violence. The Justice Department will continue to relentlessly pursue, disrupt, and hold accountable those who would commit acts of terrorism against the people and interests of the United States.”
“The defendant allegedly pledged loyalty to ISIS and sought to attack people attending churches in Idaho, a truly horrific plan which was detected and thwarted by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray. “This investigation demonstrates the FBI’s steadfast commitment to work with our law enforcement partners to stop those who wish to commit acts of violence on behalf of – or inspired by – foreign terrorist groups.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/idaho" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Idaho</a> Republican Governor Brad Little signed a bill into law on Wednesday that prohibits taxpayer dollars from being used to pay for transgender surgeries and procedures.
The <a href="https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/h0668/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">measure</a>, which easily passed both the state House and Senate, prohibits <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/idaho" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Idaho</a> public dollars from going toward transgender procedures and stipulates that those procedures cannot be done in a government owned building or properties. It passed the House by a vote of 58-11 and the Senate by a vote of 26-8.
“The proposed legislation ensures taxpayer dollars are not used to provide medical treatment or surgeries for the purpose of changing the appearance of a person&#8217;s sex in a way that is not consistent with their biological sex,” a <a href="https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/H0668SOP.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> of purpose on the legislation said. &#8220;These medical and surgical interventions can cause irreversible physical alterations; and some render the patient sterile or with lifelong sexual dysfunction, while others mutilate healthy body organs.&#8221;
Included in the <a href="https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2024/legislation/H0668.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">law</a> is a prohibition of using Idaho Medicaid funds for transgender procedures, as well as blocking doctors employed with the government from performing the procedures in the scope of their government work.
Little, whose signing of the measure was first <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/03/28/idaho-gov-ban-taxpayer-funding-sex-change-procedures/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by the Daily Caller, was widely expected to support the measure after it made its way through the legislature.
&#8220;If the government continues to send our tax dollars towards false answers to real questions, we do a terrible disservice to our citizens,&#8221; <a href="https://www.kivitv.com/downtown-boise/governor-brad-little-signs-bill-that-bans-public-funds-used-for-gender-affirming-care#:~:text=BOISE%2C%20Idaho%20—%20On%20March%2027,for%20any%20gender%2Daffirming%20care." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Senator Ben Toews during debate on the bill.
The measure was opposed by Democrats and liberal groups like the ACLU, but backed by conservative organizations like the Alliance Defending Freedom.
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“There are only two sexes—male and female—and public funds shouldn’t be used to deny this basic truth,” said ADF Senior Counsel Matt Sharp in a <a href="https://adfmedia.org/press-release/idaho-law-ensures-public-funds-do-not-promote-dangerous-life-altering-procedures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> praising Little’s decision. “Now and always, our loved ones deserve the loving embrace of family members who guide them toward this reality, along with access to safe and effective counseling. People should not be subjected to harmful—often irreversible—drugs and surgeries that block healthy development, alter hormonal balances, and remove healthy organs and body parts.”
“Idaho, through the leadership of sponsors Rep. Julianne Young, Rep. Bruce Skaug and Sen. Ben Toews and with the support of the Legislature and Gov. Little, now rightly joins a growing number of states that have enacted similar protections from these experimental procedures and bad science,” Sharp added.
While nearly two dozen states have banned transgender procedures on children, only <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/idaho-considers-ban-using-public-funds-facilities-transgender-care-rcna143870" target="_blank" rel="noopener">around</a> 10 have blocked state funds from being used to fund the procedures on others.

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The Idaho Supreme Court has denied an appeal request from attorneys representing the 29-year-old man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in 2022.
Defense attorneys <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/idaho-murder-suspects-attorneys-appeal-to-state-supreme-court-seeking-to-have-case-thrown-out" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appealed</a> to the state&#8217;s Supreme Court to overturn a lower court’s decision not to dismiss the case. The Latah County District Court previously denied the defense’s motion to dismiss.
Defense attorneys filed the appeal on February 8, which was denied on Tuesday, KTVB <a href="https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/special-reports/moscow-murders/idaho-supreme-court-decides-kohberger-appeals/277-04ef0fd2-b7a0-491f-b9ac-983f74d5309a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. While the appeal to potentially dismiss the case was rejected, the Idaho Supreme Court did grant the suspect’s request to seal the appeal documents.
The defense has argued that the grand jury that indicted the suspect, who is not being named per Daily Wire policy, was biased and given inaccurate instructions. Defense attorneys also say that the grand jury reached its decision based on inadmissible evidence and insufficient evidence to indict. The attorneys also allege prosecutorial misconduct.
The suspect has been charged with four counts of murder and one count of burglary relating to the killings of Ethan Chapin, 20; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Madison Mogen, 21, in the early morning hours of November 13, 2022, in the college town of Moscow, Idaho.
Part of the evidence that led to the suspect’s arrest, mentioned in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-police-captured-the-man-suspected-of-killing-four-university-of-idaho-students" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously unsealed</a> probable cause affidavit, showed that police were able to narrow the timeframe of the crime to between 4:00 a.m. and 4:25 a.m. and reviewed video footage taken in the area in the time before and after the murders are believed to have occurred. Video showed a white Hyundai Elantra without a front license plate (front license plates are required in Washington and Idaho, but not in Pennsylvania, where the car was registered) in the area between 3:29 a.m. and 4:20 a.m.
The vehicle can be seen passing the off-campus residence three times before returning a fourth time around 4:04 a.m. and attempting to turn around on the road. The vehicle was next seen around 4:20 a.m. traveling away from the direction of the off-campus residence at high speed, heading in the direction of a road that eventually leads to Pullman, Washington, where the suspect attended Washington State University (WSU).
Video footage from the WSU campus showed a white Hyundai Elantra leaving the area and heading toward Moscow at around 2:53 a.m. At around 5:25 a.m., this vehicle was again observed on five cameras in Pullman and the WSU campus.
Police pulled records for white Hyundai Elantras registered at WSU on November 29 – just over two weeks after the murders were committed – and found one belonging to the man who was eventually arrested. Police reviewed the owner’s Washington state driver’s license and determined he matched the suspect’s physical description provided by one of the surviving roommates.
Police matched the suspect to the vehicle through two previous traffic stops in the months before the murders. They also learned that the suspect registered his car in Washington and received Washington plates on November 18 – five days after the murders.
In a previous filing, the suspect’s attorneys claimed that DNA found at the crime scene may have been planted by police.
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“The State’s argument asks this Court and [the suspect] to assume – is that the DNA on the sheath was placed there by [the suspect], and not someone else during an investigation that spans hundreds of members of law enforcement and apparently at least one lab the State refuses to name,” the suspect’s defense attorneys wrote.
A trial date still has not been set for the case.

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State Supreme Court Rejects Suspected Idaho Killer’s Appeal Request

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Attorneys for the 29-year-old man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in 2022 have asked the state’s Supreme Court to dismiss the case.
Defense attorneys for the suspect, who is not being named by The Daily Wire, are appealing to the Idaho Supreme Court to overturn a lower court’s decision not to dismiss the case, KPVI <a href="https://www.kpvi.com/news/regional_news/bryan-kohbergers-attorneys-ask-the-idaho-supreme-court-to-weigh-in-on-case/article_ebc9c028-dcc6-11ee-b108-5bf79979018e.html#:~:text=Attorneys%20representing%20Bryan%20Kohberger%20are,rand%20Jury%20indictment." target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The Latah County District Court previously denied the defense’s motion to dismiss.
The defense argues that the grand jury that indicted the suspect was biased and given inaccurate instructions. Defense attorneys also say that the grand jury reached its decision based on inadmissible evidence and that there was insufficient evidence to indict. The attorneys also allege prosecutorial misconduct.
The allegations have not worked so far, and the state has filed an objection to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/accused-idaho-murderer-tried-to-get-his-case-dismissed-a-judge-just-said-no" target="_blank" rel="noopener">latest attempt</a> by the defense to have the case thrown out.
The suspect has been charged with four counts of murder and one count of burglary relating to the killing of Ethan Chapin, 20; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Madison Mogen, 21, in the early morning hours of November 13, 2022, in the college town of Moscow, Idaho.
Part of the evidence that led to the suspect’s arrest, mentioned in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-police-captured-the-man-suspected-of-killing-four-university-of-idaho-students" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously unsealed</a> probable cause affidavit, showed that police were able to narrow the timeframe of the crime to between 4:00 a.m. and 4:25 a.m. and reviewed video footage taken in the area in the time before and after the murders are believed to have occurred. Video showed a white Hyundai Elantra without a front license plate (front license plates are required in Washington and Idaho, but not in Pennsylvania, where the car was registered) in the area between 3:29 a.m. and 4:20 a.m.
The vehicle can be seen passing the off-campus residence three times before returning a fourth time around 4:04 a.m. and attempting to turn around on the road. The vehicle was next seen around 4:20 a.m. traveling away from the direction of the off-campus residence at high speed, heading in the direction of a road that eventually leads to Pullman, Washington, where the suspect attended Washington State University (WSU).
Video footage from the WSU campus showed a white Hyundai Elantra leaving the area and heading toward Moscow at around 2:53 a.m. This vehicle was again observed on five cameras in Pullman and the WSU campus at around 5:25 a.m.
Police pulled records for white Hyundai Elantras registered at WSU on November 29 – just over two weeks after the murders were committed – and found one belonging to the man who was eventually arrested. Police reviewed the owner’s Washington state driver’s license and determined he matched the suspect’s physical description provided by one of the surviving roommates.
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Police matched the suspect to the vehicle through two previous traffic stops in the months before the murders. They also learned that the suspect registered his car in Washington and received Washington plates on November 18 – five days after the murders.
In a previous filing, the suspect’s attorneys claimed that DNA found at the crime scene may have been planted by police.
“The State’s argument asks this Court and [the suspect] to assume – is that the DNA on the sheath was placed there by [the suspect], and not someone else during an investigation that spans hundreds of members of law enforcement and apparently at least one lab the State refuses to name,” the suspect’s defense attorneys wrote.

Suspect Arrested For The Murders Of Four University Of Idaho Students

Idaho Murder Suspect’s Attorneys Appeal To State Supreme Court Seeking To Have Case Thrown Out

Idaho Murder Suspect's Attorneys Appeal To State Supreme Court Seeking To Have Case Thrown Out

Former President Donald Trump dominated the Idaho Republican Party caucus on Saturday, securing yet another win in the GOP&#8217;s presidential nominating process.
With 77% of the votes counted, Trump towered over former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, 84.6% to 13.5%, according to the Associated Press.
Idaho GOP Chairwoman Dorothy Moon’s said in a statement that Trump won all of the state&#8217;s national delegates.
&#8220;Idaho has reaffirmed its steadfast support for President Trump today,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We recognize that our state stands as a beacon of support for Republican ideals, reaffirming Idaho’s status as &#8216;Trump Country&#8217; with his resounding victory in our caucus. The enthusiasm and dedication of supporters in Idaho is emblematic of the strength and unity of our party. Trump’s agenda is what strengthened our nation before, and it will once more. To secure our southern border, grow our flailing economy, and shield our nation from the radical leftist agenda, it is imperative that we rally together as a united party.&#8221;
The contest was the second election of the day that he won after he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-beats-haley-in-missouri-gop-caucus">blew out Haley in Missouri</a>, winning all of the state&#8217;s 924 statewide delegates while Haley secured 0.
Trump also won all 39 delegates that were available in Michigan&#8217;s district caucuses on Saturday, bringing the total number of delegates he has to 247 nationwide. Haley only has 24 delegates.
Trump could come close to officially clinching the Republican Party presidential nomination this week on Super Tuesday as there are 874 delegates up for grabs.
Assuming that things continue to go his way, the earliest Trump could wrap up the primary is on March 12 when Georgia, Hawaii, Mississippi, and Washington hold their contests.
Trump has so far won handily in Iowa (caucus), New Hampshire (primary), Nevada (caucus and primary), Virgin Islands, South Carolina, and Michigan.
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Republican-led states across the country are urging the Supreme Court to allow Idaho to enforce its ban on transgender medical treatments for children, issuing a fact-filled take-down of the burgeoning industry that cites The Daily Wire’s reporting to the high court.
Nineteen Republican attorneys general told the Supreme Court that it would be a “devastating medical scandal” if Idaho was not allowed to protect children from transgender procedures in a Wednesday legal filing that takes aim at the transgender medical industry. 
Led by Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, the attorneys general filed a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/02/Labrador_v._Poe._States_Amicus_Brief.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">36-page amicus brief</a> in support of Idaho’s petition to the Supreme Court to allow it to broadly enforce its ban on giving children life-altering puberty blockers and transgender surgeries. The briefing argues that so-called “gender-affirming care” for children is dangerous, irreversible, and being pushed for ideological and financial reasons — highlighted in the brief, in fact, is the admission by officials at Vanderbilt University’s hospital that transgender surgeries are “huge money makers,” which was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/huge-money-maker-video-reveals-vanderbilts-shocking-gender-care-threats-against-dissenting-doctors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first exposed</a> by Daily Wire host Matt Walsh.
A federal judge <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-blocks-idaho-law-protecting-kids-from-transgender-procedures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> in December, days before Idaho’s law was set to take effect, that it violated the 14th Amendment, blocking the state from enforcing any aspect of the bill. It filed an emergency motion to the Supreme Court on Tuesday challenging the lower court’s decision, in which the judge claimed that the outlawed medical treatments were “safe, effective, and medically necessary for some adolescents.”
Wednesday’s brief from the attorneys general, however, highlights the medical complications children face from transgender procedures and says that the lower court’s decision “puts children’s health and safety in danger.”
The Supreme Court has never issued a ruling regarding bans on transgender medical treatments for children, though several federal appeals courts have upheld laws similar to Idaho’s. Leftist groups such as the ACLU have asked the Supreme Court to strike down similar laws after losing challenges to them in appeals courts, but it is still yet to weigh in.  
The amicus brief to the court says that the states supporting Idaho’s appeal “are concerned that a devastating medical scandal is at hand.”
“[T]he medical establishment’s fast-tracking of vulnerable youth suffering from gender dysphoria — and, almost always, a host of other psychiatric ailments — for hormonal and surgical sex-modification procedures that can leave them sterilized and permanently harmed,” the brief says. “In response, over twenty States have joined Idaho in generally requiring children to reach the age of majority before undergoing medicalized sex-change procedures.”
Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia all signed onto the brief. A decision to allow enforcement of Idaho could indicate where it would rule on other ongoing challenges to the other state bans. 
The brief blasted the district court for relying on “activist-drafted” guidelines on transgender procedures. In his decision, District Judge B. Lynn Winmill pointed to guidelines from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health that claim that children can be subjected to transgender procedures. 
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Repeatedly referenced throughout the brief were the health risks of putting children on cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers. These two procedures can damage a child’s bone development and cognitive function as well as future fertility. 
Winmill is <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.idd.52357/gov.uscourts.idd.52357.78.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lambasted</a> by the Republican officials for his suggestion that a “neophallus” surgery, a procedure where tissue from a woman’s clitoris is used to fashion a faux-penis, was “freely available” to children who do not identify as transgender.
The brief argues that the decision to block Idaho’s law was compromised by the financial interests of activist medical societies such as the one cited in Winmill’s decision.
“The court was obviously wrong to outsource the regulation of medical procedures to interest groups whose members are financially dependent on providing the procedures at issue; the Constitution puts States, not medical societies, in charge of regulation for a reason,” the brief says. 
Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador filed his petition before the court on Friday with support from lawyers with the Alliance Defending Freedom. The petition, addressed to Justice Elena Kagan, is expected to be discussed by the full court.

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Attorneys for the 29-year-old man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in 2022 have asked for his trial to be held away from the county where the murders occurred.
Attorney Anne Taylor filed <a href="https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/isc.coi/CR29-22-2805/2024/013024-Motion-for-Change-of-Venue.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a two-page petition</a> this week arguing that a “fair and impartial jury cannot be found” in Latah County, Idaho, where the murders of Ethan Chapin, 20; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Madison Mogen, 21, took place on November 13, 2022. For more than a year, Taylor argued, residents of the area have been subjected to regular news coverage about the murders.
“A fair and impartial jury cannot be found in Latah County owing to the extensive, inflammatory pretrial publicity, allegations made about [the suspect] to the public by media that will be inadmissible at his trial, the small size of the community, the salacious nature of the alleged crimes, and the severity of the charges [the suspect] faces,” Taylor wrote. “Enlarging the jury pool will not do anything to overcome that pervasive prejudicial publicity because Latah County does not have a large enough population center to avoid the bias in the community. Further, the size of the community and the interconnectedness of its citizenry is problematic and will prevent a fair and impartial pool of potential jurors.”
Taylor requested a hearing be held to discuss a potential change in venue by the end of April 2024.
Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson said during a pretrial hearing on Friday that a change of venue wouldn’t help the defendant.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not Moscow. It&#8217;s not Latah County. It&#8217;s everywhere. So, I don&#8217;t think that a change of venue is going to solve any of these problems,&#8221; Thompson said, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/idaho-college-murders-brian-kohbergers-lawyers-request-change/story?id=106843983" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to ABC News</a>. &#8220;I have people, friends in this community who have traveled to Mexico. And they say, &#8216;You&#8217;re from Moscow?&#8217; And immediately, they want to talk about this case.&#8221;
The suspect, who is not being named by The Daily Wire due to a policy on accused mass killers, received a win last month in court when District Court Judge John Judge ordered prosecutors <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/accused-idaho-killer-will-receive-some-of-the-dna-genealogy-evidence-he-has-been-requesting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to turn over some</a> of the genetic genealogy evidence used to link the man to the crimes.
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Prosecutors have argued that they didn’t need to turn over detailed information about how genetic genealogy was used to link the suspect to the crimes since a DNA sample provided by the suspect directly matched DNA found on a knife sheath found at the crime scene. The genetic genealogy wouldn’t be used at trial, prosecutors argued.
Once police had their suspect, they tracked him to his parents’ house in Pennsylvania and collected garbage from the trash cans outside. They obtained DNA that partially matched the DNA collected from the knife sheath, indicating they had the DNA of the suspect’s father. Collecting DNA from the suspect later directly linked him to the sheath. The sheath was found on a bed next to Goncalves and Mogen’s bodies, partially under one of them. The type of knife the sheath held would have been consistent with the knife used to murder the four victims.

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An Idaho judge has ruled that prosecutors must turn over “a portion” of the genetic genealogy evidence used to link a 29-year-old man to the killings of four University of Idaho students in 2022.
The suspect, who is not being named by The Daily Wire due to a policy on mass killers, has been arguing with the court to have prosecutors turn over investigative genetic genealogy (IGG) for months. Last week, District Court Judge John Judge ordered prosecutors to turn over some of that evidence, Newsweek <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/bryan-kohberger-judge-dan-records-1860551" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
&#8220;The court has now completed its review of the information provided by the state and orders the state to discover to the defense a portion of the IGG information,&#8221; Judge ruled, according to the outlet. &#8220;The specific material to be provided is set forth in a sealed order to protect the privacy of the IGG information, including individuals on the family tree.&#8221;
The suspect’s attorneys are seeking to discredit the DNA evidence, which linked the suspect to the crimes.
The suspect has been charged with four counts of murder and one count of burglary relating to the killing of Ethan Chapin, 20; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Madison Mogen, 21, in the early morning hours of November 13, 2022, in the college town of Moscow.
Prosecutors have argued that they didn’t need to turn over detailed information about how genetic genealogy was used to link the suspect to the crimes since a DNA sample provided by the suspect directly matched DNA found on a knife sheath found at the crime scene. The genetic genealogy wouldn’t be used at trial, prosecutors argued.
Once police had their suspect, they tracked him to his parents’ house in Pennsylvania and collected garbage from the trash cans outside. They obtained DNA that partially matched the DNA collected from the knife sheath, indicating they had the DNA of the suspect’s father. Collecting DNA from the suspect later directly linked him to the sheath. The sheath was found on a bed next to Goncalves and Mogen’s bodies, partially under one of them. The type of knife the sheath held would have been consistent with the knife used to murder the four victims.
Anne Taylor, the defense attorney, has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/accused-idaho-killer-continues-to-argue-about-dna-found-on-knife-sheath-at-crime-scene" target="_blank" rel="noopener">repeatedly argued</a> that the prosecution had not provided full DNA information from the crime, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bryan-kohberger-idaho-student-stabbings-suspect-attorneys-question-validity-knife-sheath-dna/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
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“They have provided full DNA discovery for the sheath, the knife sheath, but not the other three unidentified male DNA samples,” she told the judge in August, referring to DNA from three men she said was found at the off-campus residence in Moscow, Idaho.
Prosecutors countered at the time by saying they had turned over everything they had.
“We have given the defense everything that we have received from the lab. They’ve asked for DNA work-ups on other people. To the extent that they don’t have them, they weren’t done,” Latah County Prosecuting Attorney Bill Thompson argued. “We can’t produce something that doesn’t exist.”
In July, the suspect’s defense attorneys <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/idaho-murder-suspect-claims-dna-may-have-been-planted-at-crime-scene-by-cops" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> that their client’s DNA may have been planted at the scene by police but could not explain why he would have been targeted for the crime.
In a June court filing, the suspect’s other attorney, Jay Weston Logsdon, filed a <a href="https://www.insideedition.com/sites/default/files/inline-files/061623%20States%20Motion%20for%20Protective%20Order.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">motion</a> objecting to the prosecutor’s attempts to avoid turning over a detailed breakdown of how authorities used genetic genealogy to link the accused to the murders. Logsdon wrote in the motion that investigators found DNA from three other men in the off-campus residence where Chapin, Goncalves, Kernodle, and Mogen, were murdered. DNA from two men was found inside the house, while DNA from a third man was found outside the home on a glove, the filing says, according to <a href="https://www.insideedition.com/bryan-kohberger-defense-dna-suspects-glove-murder-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Inside Edition</a>.
None of the three reported samples match the suspect’s DNA, though it is unknown when this particular DNA was left at the home, which was the location of frequent parties.
The suspect and his attorney say these DNA samples were never run through the national DNA database to find a match.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court</a> has allowed an Idaho law making it a crime to perform an abortion to take effect before it weighs in on the law. 
A federal judge had previously blocked implementation of Idaho’s “<a href="https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/title18/t18ch6/sect18-622/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Defense of Life Act</a>” after the Biden administration sued to overturn the law saying that it violated the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. The Supreme Court is expected to hear the case in April, but will allow the law to be enforced in the meantime. 
“We are very pleased and encouraged by the Supreme Court’s decision today. The federal government has been wrong from day one. Federal law does not preempt Idaho’s Defense of Life Act. In fact, EMTALA and Idaho’s law share the same goal: to save the lives of all women and their unborn children. Today, the Supreme Court’s decision is a big step in stopping the administration’s lawless overreach. The people of Idaho have spoken with clarity on the issue of life,” Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador said. 
The law says that those who administer abortions shall be punished with two to five years in prison and the suspension of medical license on first offense and revocation on second.
In response to the decision, the White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/01/05/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-supreme-court-order-on-idahos-abortion-ban/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> that the law “denies women critical emergency abortion care required by federal law.” The Biden administration has argued that federal law would allow doctors to do abortions in circumstances not allowed by state law. 
“The overturning of Roe v. Wade has enabled Republican elected officials to pursue dangerous abortion bans like this one that continue to jeopardize women’s health, force them to travel out of state for care, and make it harder for doctors to provide care, including in an emergency,” the White House said. 
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The Alliance Defending Freedom, which helped appeal the decision to block the law to the Supreme Court, said that the Biden administration wanted to use the EMTLA to “force emergency room doctors to perform abortions.”
“The government has no business forcing doctors to harm their patients or violate their duty to provide life-saving care to all, including unborn children. We are proud to serve alongside the state of Idaho to ensure emergency room doctors can freely and safely serve women and their families,” said ADF Senior Counsel Erin Hawley. 
The Supreme Court is also set to decide this year on a case over mifepristone, the drug used in over half of all abortions.

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A federal judge this week blocked an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/idaho" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Idaho</a> law protecting kids from transgender surgeries, claiming that it likely violated the 14th Amendment. 
Federal Judge B. Lynn Winmill temporarily blocked the enactment of an Idaho law passed earlier this year that bans procedures like double mastectomies on girls who identify as boys and giving children puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador said that he would immediately challenge the ruling, which blocks the law until a lawsuit filed against the law is resolved. 
“The federal judiciary once endorsed the eugenics movement and forced sterilization of intellectually disabled people. Similarly, Judge Winmill’s ruling places children at risk of irreversible harm. History will not look kindly at this decision. We are taking immediate action to appeal this decision and are confident that correction will come. I will never stop fighting for and protecting our most vulnerable children,” Labrador <a href="https://www.ag.idaho.gov/newsroom/attorney-general-responds-to-court-blocking-idahos-vulnerable-child-protection-act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement. 
Winmill <a href="https://idahocapitalsun.com/2023/12/27/judge-temporarily-blocks-enforcement-of-idaho-law-on-gender-affirming-care-for-transgender-youth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sided</a> with two families with children after they sued the state to stop enforcement of the law, under which doctors could face up to ten years in prison for giving children life-altering transgender surgeries or hormonal procedures. 
“Time and again, these cases illustrate that the 14th Amendment’s primary role is to protect disfavored minorities and preserve our fundamental rights from legislative overreach,” Winmill said. “That was true for newly freed slaves following the Civil War. It was true in the 20th century for women, people of color, inter-racial couples, and individuals seeking access to contraception. And it is no less true for transgender children and their parents in the 21st century.”
The judge said that his decision was not “anti-democratic” because the 14th Amendment was intended to stop laws that violated equal protection. 
“The authors of the 14th Amendment fully understood and intended that the amendment would prevent state legislatures from passing laws that denied equal protection of the laws or invaded the fundamental rights of the people,” Winmill said. 
The <a href="https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2023/legislation/H0071.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">law prohibits</a> surgeries “that sterilize or mutilate, or artificially construct tissue with the appearance of genitalia that differs from the child&#8217;s biological sex” as well as the removal of the breasts of girls who identify as boys. Additionally, it blocks the administration of puberty blockers and cross sex hormones, which can impact bone development, fertility, and heart health.
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In a statement, the ACLU of Idaho, which helped back the lawsuit, celebrated the decision. 
“This judicial decision is a much-needed ray of hope for trans people amid a years-long onslaught against their rights to access health care and ability to navigate the world around them. Everyone should be free to live and thrive in their authentic identity, which means transgender people should not be shut out of accessing medically sound health care,” ACLU of Idaho executive director Leo Morales said. 
Over 20 states across the country have passed legislation shielding kids from transgender procedures. While some judges have blocked implementation of the measures, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-appeals-court-upholds-tennessee-kentuckys-bans-on-transgender-treatments-for-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">upheld</a> Tennessee’s law earlier this year.

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