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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Tuesday, November 19th. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - brought to you by the Cowboy State Daily Morning Show with Jake. From 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., Monday through Friday, Cowboy State Daily's Jake Nichols takes you deeper into the stories that matter - and keeps up with the news, weather and sports in your part of Wyoming. Just tune into Cowboy State Daily Dot Com and join the conversation.

Wyoming's two abortion bans are unconstitutional and will be blocked from being enforced. That's what a Jackson-based judge ruled Monday.

Teton County District Court Judge Melissa Owens concluded a year-and-a-half lawsuit Monday with that summary judgment order, according to Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland.

"Judge Melissa Owens ruled Monday… that abortion is health care, that the state's laws and you know, stated purposes of these bans don't overcome an individual's right to that health care, and lastly, she said that she's blocking the bans from going into effect altogether. So they've been temporarily blocked during this litigation for a year and a half. Like we're going to pause these decide if they're constitutional. This is just an outright block. These are not constitutional. You cannot enforce them."

Wyoming lawmakers and pro-lifers have a few different options going forward. The state can appeal Owens' ruling to the Wyoming Supreme Court. The Legislature can try to pass a different ban that shows a compelling government interest; or, the Wyoming Legislature and the voters can pass a new constitutional amendment.

Read the full story HERE.

Opinions were split over whether to allow concealed firearms on the University of Wyoming campus during a town hall meeting on campus Monday.

Outdoors reporter Mark Heinz attended the town hall, where panelists discussed a draft proposal to loosen UW's firearms policy. He reported that most who spoke out seemed to be against the idea.

"There's a proposal that is going before the UW trustees later this week, and it would be just the Cliff Notes are, it would be only for people holding concealed carry permits, and they would have to be age 21 and up so, so no open carry, no long guns, no nothing like that… most of the people who attended this meeting do not want to see concealed carry guns on UW campus. You know, they cited, you know, concern about accidental shooting suicides, just, you know, the overall danger of the thing."

If approved by UW Board of Trustees, the proposal would allow concealed carry permit holders to carry firearms in most UW facilities. It's set to be considered by trustees during their next meeting, scheduled for later this week.

Read the full story HERE.

Tempers are not cooling in Laramie County between some local Republicans and their county clerk.

The Wyoming Republican Party censured Laramie County Clerk Debra Lee on Saturday for the second time this year over the way she conducted voting machine testing in this year's elections, according to politics reporter Leo Wolfson.

"This stems from frustration that the state party has over election machine tests that Lee conducted for the primary and general elections. These tests, the party alleges, did not align with state law and were missing critical pieces of information in the tests that were performed… Tim Stubson, a casper attorney who's representing Lee in her official capacity in