Rep. Chip Neiman
JACKSON — Teton County District Judge Melissa Owens ruled Friday against four anti-abortion advocates seeking to intervene in the legal battle after saying there was no room in the courtroom for rehashing the political debate.
Owens noted that the activists had the opportunity to make their...
Photo-illustration by Tennessee Watson/Wyofile. Photos by Michael Cummo/Wyoming Tribune Eagle and Mike Vanata/WyoFile.
Defendants state Chuck Gray has ‘no legal authority’ to intervene. They don’t oppose other intervenors, but question the need for hearing or trial.
Wyoming Attorney General Bridget Hill and Gov. Mark Gordon oppose the secretary of state’s request to join their defense of the state’s abortion ban...
JACKSON — A group of doctors, nonprofits and women of childbearing age who are fighting to keep abortion legal in Wyoming are asking a judge to keep several abortion foes and the secretary of state out of a lawsuit seeking to overturn the state ban.
As that court case continues, abortion remains...
JACKSON — Abortion is sounding a lot like health care, according to a Teton County judge who halted the state’s ban against it.
In a 32-page temporary restraining order filed this week, Teton County District Court Judge Melissa Owens found that six plaintiffs made a “sufficient showing” that an...
JACKSON – A group of intervenors hoping to defend Wyoming’s new abortion ban has grown from three to four, with Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray joining two lawmakers and an anti-abortion advocacy group.
The intervenors are arguing that the Attorney General’s Office is offering “inadequate...
Photo by Walter Sprague/NLJ
On Monday, March 13, the Weston County Republican Party Central Committee held an organizational meeting. Election of officers were held and several resolutions were passed, thanking various elected officials from federal to local offices. Above, Jamie and Tom Farnsworth look over paperwork at the meeting.
Weston County’s Republican Party is alive and well, if the turnout and participation at the party’s recent leadership election meeting is any indication.
Party members reelected Kari Drost as chairwoman. Allen Slagle, who is also the House District 2 representative,, will be the vice chair, with...
Photo courtesy of Michael Smith
Sen. Ogden Driskill, R-Devils Tower, reads during the morning session Jan. 31 in the Senate
Chamber.
The general session of the 67th Wyoming Legislature came to an end on Friday, March 3, and majority floor leader Rep. Chip Neiman, R-Hulett, said he is encouraged by the good work done for constituents in Wyoming.
At the start of the session, according to a Wyoming Legislative Service Office...
Photo courtesy of Michael S. Smith
As the Wyoming State Legislature’s general session approaches its end, local legislators are mourning bills that are essentially dead as "shenanigans" continue at the state capitol.
“We had two bills on ESG (environmental, social and governance) from Senator [Bo] Biteman, of which the House...
CASPER — The “Life is a Human Right Act” sailed through the Senate Agriculture Committee in a unanimous vote Thursday morning after stalling for two weeks in the upper chamber, bringing Wyoming closer to a new attempt to ban abortion in a post Roe landscape.
Before moving it along, lawmakers on...
CASPER — After a nearly two-week hang up in the Senate, the most ambitious abortion restriction bill the Wyoming Legislature has ever considered is back on track.
Senate President Ogden Driskill, R-Devils Tower, referred the “Life is a Human Right” bill on Wednesday to the Senate Agriculture...
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