by Steve Klein In 2014, Wyoming Liberty Group won one of its more close-to-home free speech lawsuits. Ron Williams, a longtime Cheyenne resident, successfully sued the city in 1995 to overturn an ordinance that prohibited putting up election signs on one's own property until 45 days before an election and required removal within 10 days thereafter....
by Boyd Wiggam Cleaning up "blighted" property is a popular new trend in Wyoming cities. Local government officials and candidates around the state have joined the anti-blight cause. Unfortunately, proposed solutions could erode property rights, impose high costs on taxpayers, and threaten financial ruin for the very people officials and candidates...
This bill significantly reforms the state's practice of civil asset forfeiture, which allows the government to seize and keep property that is allegedly related to the illegal drug trade without convicting or even charging...
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Grant, a Republican, was elected president. Not surprisingly, Grant soon appointed Republicans to run the brand-new Wyoming Territory. These included the governor, John Campbell; Campbell’s second in command, Secretary Edward Lee; and Attorney General Joseph A. Carey, the top government lawyer in the state. They arrived in May 1869. Not long afterward, Carey issued an official legal opinion that no one in Wyoming could be denied the right to vote based on race.
Legislator and South Pass City saloonkeeper William Bright. Wyoming Tales and Trails. The most interesting of all those men may have been the one who introduced the bill. He was a saloonkeeper from South Pass City, a frontier mining town nearly as big as Cheyenne at the time. William Bright never went to school.
In 1870 and 1871, Amalia Post and other women served on juries in Laramie. In September 1870, women throughout the Territory finally got the chance to vote in Wyoming’s second election. As many as 1,000 women appear to have gone to the polls.
Some stories attribute it to his young wife, Julia Bright. The Wyoming Territorial Legislature gave women the right to vote late in 1869, and Gov. John Campbell signed it into law Dec. 10. Library of Congress.
Early in 1869 , Dakota Territory came within one vote of passing a so-called woman suffrage bill. The idea was not new in American politics. Many of Wyoming’s legislators came from states or territories where the question had been discussed often.