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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Wednesday, April 29th. I'm Mac Watson.

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A Powell City councilman is suggesting on Facebook that Wyoming start "hanging bad judges" after a judge blocked the state's most recent abortion ban. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that multiple retired state judges and one retired Wyoming Supreme Court justice are outraged.

"I talked to retired Wyoming Supreme Court justices, retired judges. Wyoming Supreme Court Justice Bill Hill said that this man is an idiot. The retired Chief Justice Kate Fox sought to remind everyone that people work in courts are real people taking care of their families and handling the issues. One said there's no faster way to get rid of your freedom than to attack or eliminate the judiciary. Powell Mayor John Wetzel said that he stands with the rule of law and didn't support the statement."

Since the landmark case of Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, Wyoming state judges have blocked all four of the Legislature's attempts to ban abortion, citing a section of the Wyoming Constitution that promises health care autonomy for competent adults.

Read the full story HERE.

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A driver caught towing a boat on I-25 near Wheatland at 104 mph got a ticket, but didn't go to jail. Cowboy State Daily's Kolby Fedore reports that the Wyoming highway patrol says there's no set threshold that triggers automatic jail for speeders, but towing a boat in triple digits could kill you.

"He was ticketed. But Highway Patrol notes that he was lucky. This could have been catastrophic if he had blown a tire. Steve Stadelmaier, of Glendo, Wyoming, is a sales manager at Belmont Boats. He recently towed a boat over 1,200 miles from Texas to Glendo Wyoming, and he says that towing a boat over 100 miles per hour is just asking for trouble. Most tires, by the way, aren't rated to go over 80 miles per hour."

The Wyoming Highway Patrol adds that the traffic stop likely added about 20 minutes to the trip and resulted in a $180 fine.

Read the full story HERE.

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A federal court has ruled that firearms parts without serial numbers could be protected under the Second Amendment. Cowboy State Daily's Mark Heinz reports that the decision is good news for Wyomingites who build or customize their own guns.

"The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Second Amendment, in other words, your right to bear arms, extends to those parts. And basically, with the 10th Circuit Court, what they did was just affirm that a state can't, because what Colorado tried to do is they tried to pass a ban on any firearms parts that didn't have serial numbers on them."

In June 2023, Colorado enacted a law prohibiting the purchase, sale, transfer, and possession of un-serialized firearms, firearm frames or receivers, and the like, according to 10th Circuit Court documents.

Read the full story HERE.

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In a sharply-worded letter to Cheyenne attorney George Powers, the Wyoming Attorney General's office says Sec. of State Chuck Gray doesn't have to release the legal advice he may have received before handing sensitive voter data to the federal government. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that Powers is pushing Gray what legal advice, if any, prompted him to hand voters' information to the federal governmen