Armed Man Charges Park County Sheriff Deputy With Weapon Deputy Shoots And Kills Man

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Armed Man Charges Park County Sheriff Deputy With Weapon Deputy Shoots And Kills Man

A Deputy Sheriff with the Park County Sheriff’s Department was forced to use lethal force against a man on Tuesday, August 30, 2022. According to the Sheriff’s Department:

Park County Sheriff’s Office

Critical Incident Involving a Deputy

On August 30th, 2022, at 2:56 P.M. a Park County Sheriff’s Deputy was involved in a critical incident, during a traffic stop, with a suspect known to have an active warrant.

The Deputy attempted a traffic stop on the suspect, at which time a pursuit ensued. The suspect attempted to flee down a canal road. He eventually stopped his vehicle, exited with a firearm pointed at the Deputy, and charged at the Deputy. The Deputy was forced to engage the male with lethal force and shots were fired. The suspect is deceased, and the Deputy is uninjured.

The Division of Criminal Investigation was directly notified and is currently investigating this with the full cooperation of the Park County Sheriff’s Office.

The Park County Sheriff’s Office is unable to immediately release any more information. Sheriff Scott Steward asks for patience while this complex and active investigation is completed.

The suspect is deceased.

Casper Police Searching For 33-year-old Joshua Charles Crook Whom is Armed and Dangerous

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The Casper Police Department is seeking fugitive 33-year-old-Joshua Charles Crook. According to the CPD, Crook is allegedly accused of firing a weapon within city limits while he had a woman with him in the vehicle, allegedly against her will Thursday evening.

Casper police have been looking for Crook, who fled from the police when they tried to pull him over and caused a pursuit that ended on the west end of the City of Casper.

At one point Joshua Charles Crook got out of the vehicle and ran on foot fleeing from the officers. CPD, as of this published article, still has not located Crook but are actively looking for Crook.

Casper police have told the media that they believe that Joshua Crook is a armed and dangerous fugitive and cautions the public not to interact with Crook. THe woman that Crook had in his vehicle was recovered and unharmed by Crook. Crook is about 180 lbs, 5 10 in height.

Wyoming Highway Patrol Sgt. Gabriel Testerman has been arrested.

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Wyoming Highway Patrol Sgt. Gabriel Testerman has been arrested.

Wyoming Highway Patrol Sgt. Gabriel Testerman has been arrested. According to the Cheyenne Police Department, WHP Sgt Gabriel Testerman was under investigation by the Cheyenne Police Department. The investigation had been launched back in May of 2022 and continued up until the time that Sgt Gabriel Testerman was arrested.

A warrant was put out for the arrest of Testerman, and the Laramie County Sheriff’s Office arrested Testerman without any further incident. This arrest took place on Tuesday evening. The Cheyenne Police department had notified the Wyoming Highway Patrol that Testerman was under investigation by the Cheyenne police.

Testerman was taken out of service and placed on administrative leave pending further investigation. According to Wyoming News sources, more charges are being explored to be filed against Testerman pending further investigation.

Moshe Williams Co-Defendant in Murder Trial Will Receive Competency Evaluation Ordered By Judge Bobbi Overfield

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One of the two defendants in a first-degree murder case of their daughter Paisleigh Williams, two years old, is suspected of having some mental issues, according to Williams’ defense counsel, Wyoming public defender Dylan Rosalez, requested the Park County District Court to “Grant a Competency Evaluation.”

The Park County District Court Judge, Bobbi Overfield, has agreed and ordered Williams to undergo Comp Eval before the trial, which was set to start in October of 2022.

The Park County Deputy Attorney, Jack Hatfield, indicated to the court that the state does not object to Williams undergoing a Comp Evaluation. According to Hatfield, If there’s reasonable cause, we see good faith for the Competency evaluation request, and we have no reason to dispute the test if the court orders it, indicated Park County Deputy Attorney Jack Hatfield.

The snag, in this case, is that the State Hospital in Evanston, Wyoming has a backlog of available beds booked into the new year of 2023.

By law, the state hospital in Evanston, Wyoming, will have only 30 days to conduct an Eval and prepare the findings for the District Court within the 30-day time frame. District Court Judge Bobbi Overfield stated in Court that if the State Hospital can not conform to the 30-day time frame, it was suggested that the State Hospital send a mental examiner to the detention facility for inpatient service for the competency evaluation to be conducted.

So far, the trial date in October has not been changed, moved, or canceled. According to the District Court Judge, if the evidence supports the defense counsel’s position, which information shows that William Moshe is incompetent to assist or stand trial, then there may be a good reason to vacate the trial altogether.

So far, both Moshe and Aune Williams are to stand trial as Co-Defendants at the same trial. According to the Defense counsel for Aune Williams, Public Defender Travis Smith, his legal position is that the competency evaluation may directly impact his client Aune Williams and will more than likely change his client’s defense type.

According to Court records, Park County Deputy Attorney Jack Hatfiled filed on August 18th, 2022, motioned the court to deny Moshe Williams’s counsel’s motion to sever the defendants and be tried separately. Hatfield intends to use the same evidence against both defendants in the case.

Justice Kagan And Textualism, That Word Does Not Mean What She Thinks It Means

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Justice Kagan And Textualism, That Word Does Not Mean What She Thinks It Means
Seven years ago, during the Antonin Scalia Lecture series at Harvard Law School, Justice Elena Kagan famously proclaimed, “We’re all textualists now.” Yet in her dissent in the Supreme Court’s recent decision in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, Justice Kagan changed her tune by questioning the majority’s commitment to textualism, writing that “the current Court is textualist only when being so suits it. When that method would frustrate broader goals, special canons like the ‘major questions doctrine’ magically appear as get-out-of-text-free cards.” 

Combine Justice Kagan’s criticism with media coverage describing recent Court decisions as “stripping” constitutional rights, and you may be convinced the Supreme Court is engaged in overreach and arbitrary—or, worse, partisan—decision-making. The reality is the exact opposite: The Court’s decisions throughout the past term are predictable results of a judicial philosophy based in text and history, correcting several decades of judicial activism. When interpreting a statute, one begins with interpreting the text as it is written, not as one thinks it should be written.
 Judicial Overreach Contrary to the outcome-oriented jurisprudence that Justice Kagan describes, numerous significant decisions from the past Supreme Court term restore the Founders’ vision of the constitutional separation of powers arising from the grant of authority to the judiciary under Article III of the Constitution, balanced in equal part with the authorities given to the executive branch and to Congress under Articles I and II. 

Rarely, if ever, has the Supreme Court stepped back from its well-established pattern of judicial overreach, voluntarily relinquishing power to another branch of government. But with several recent decisions, a majority of the Court has demonstrated a willingness to do just that. For too long, judges have acted as “politicians in robes,” dictating important matters of public policy in all 50 states. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Court overruled the decisions in Roe v. Wade (1973) and its follow-up Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992).

The Roe Court purported to find a right to abortion that springs from a right to privacy found somewhere in the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth or Fourteenth Amendments, conceding that “the Constitution does not explicitly mention any right of privacy.” The Court has previously found some unenumerated rights (e.g., the right to marital privacy, right to travel, right to vote) protected by implication from other text in the Constitution and historical practice. Yet few constitutional rights are absolute. Determining the extent to which a constitutional right is protected against government regulation requires consideration of temporal framing mechanisms such as the original meaning, what other rights existed at that time and what canons of construction were commonly used by courts. For example, the right of privacy guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment can be overcome by a warrant, and the right to free speech may be subject to “time, place and manner” restrictions or fighting-words exceptions.

So there is no textual basis to support a conclusion that an implied right of privacy, without more, prevents government from regulating based on arbitrary timelines or balancing tests. According to the Dobbs majority opinion, the Court in Roe “did not claim that American law or the common law had ever recognized [a right to abortion],” and the opinion was more legislative than judicial. Nothing in the text of the Constitution itself supported the conclusion that the federal government had authority to restrict the states in their regulation of abortion.

 Because the Constitution is silent on the issue of abortion, the authority to regulate abortion is properly returned to the people and their elected representatives in the states. Justice Kagan’s accusation does not hold up—textualism does not mean reading new rights into constitutional or statutory silence. And when an opinion diverges from the text, it is up to the Court to correct that decision. As Justice Clarence Thomas noted in his Dobbs concurrence, the Court “ha[s] a duty to ‘correct the error’ established” in other substantive due process cases (those that deal with unenumerated rights) and reconsider whether the rights at issue there are supported by constitutional text such as the Fourteenth Amendment’s privileges or immunities clause. Major Questions In West Virginia v. EPA, the Court considered the scope of the EPA’s regulatory reach as authorized under the text of the Clean Air Act, concluding that Congress did not grant the agency the authority to regulate national energy policy by issuing significant rules governing emissions caps.

The Court’s opinion describes the type of authority the agency purported to have as implicating a major question of policy. After analyzing the text, history and precedent, the Court found that a “clear statement” from Congress was required when an executive agency claims widespread authority to effectuate major policy changes. The premise of this major questions doctrine is that Congress must clearly articulate the parameters of large grants of authority to agencies because of the lack of checks and balances once those agencies are empowered. This idea of requiring Congress to specifically define agency authority is not new. Then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh explained in his dissent from the D.C. Circuit case U.S. Telecom Assocation v. FCC (2017) that “Congress must clearly authorize an agency to issue a major rule.” And as Justice Antonin Scalia explained in Whitman v. American Trucking Associations (2001), Congress does not fundamentally alter regulatory schemes through “vague terms or ancillary provisions—it does not, one might say, hide elephants in mouseholes.” Again, Justice Kagan’s accusation of using a special new method of interpreting statutes does not hold up. Put simply, as Justice Felix Frankfurter would have advised: “Read the statute, read the statute, read the statute!” In West Virginia v. EPA, the agency’s self-proclaimed authority was nowhere to be found in the legislative text. If an agency is to issue major rules, Congress must give it explicit permission to do so. 
 The Court has recently addressed other precedents and rules created without a clear textual basis. For example, Justice Neil Gorsuch brought clarity to a decades-long mess of establishment clause jurisprudence in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, which held that the First Amendment protects an individual engaging in a personal religious observance from government reprisal. Writing for the majority, Justice Gorsuch rejected the long-standing but faulty standard for church-state separation, a phrase that is not found in the Constitution. Prohibitions on state endorsement of and entanglement with a specific religion were not intended to be prohibitions on religious freedom—it was coercion and compulsion that the Founders feared, as reflected in the First Amendment. By shelving this ahistorical approach, the Kennedy v. Bremerton School District decision liberates the free exercise clause from the judge-created theory of separation of church and state. Again, the Court returned to the text of the Constitution. Politically Motivated Decision-Making? Given the abundance of attention on the Court’s recent decisions, and the multitude of elected officials denouncing the Supreme Court as extreme and ideologically motivated, it is worth noting that textualism does not support solely politically conservative positions.
In Biden v. Texas, for example, the Court analyzed the Immigration and Nationality Act and held that the Biden administration has authority to end the Remain in Mexico policy put in place by the Trump administration. And who could forget that Justice Gorsuch reached the majority decision in Bostock v. Clayton County through a textualist approach that many argue did not consider the original intentions of the 1964 Congress that passed the Civil Rights Act? Bostock is a prime example of how using the same text-based interpretive approach can result in divergent conclusions. Gorsuch’s majority opinion explained that the express terms of the statute required a finding that homosexuality and transgender status are protected by Title VII’s prohibition of discrimination based on “sex” because it treats individuals differently “for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex.” The Court noted that “the limits of the drafters’ imagination supply no reason to ignore the law’s demands.” By contrast, in his dissent, Justice Alito framed the issue before the Court as whether Congress included a prohibition on discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity at the time the Civil Rights Act was passed. A textualist approach should involve this degree of context to avoid the trap of a court interpreting a law based on changed circumstances or current public opinion—a role properly reserved to the democratically accountable political branches. Characterizations of the Supreme Court’s recent decisions as partisan or anti-democratic are prompted by the political branches of government and their supportive media.
Yet, in these recent decisions, the Supreme Court refrains from the results-oriented decision-making to which the Court’s critics have grown accustomed and which they would prefer.  As Justice Breyer noted in his 2021 book “The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics,” “It is only through [journalists’] reporting that the vast majority of Americans learns just what courts [do].” Accurate reporting of consequential decisions is crucial to fostering respect for the law, and it is important to show these overall trends of stable, predictable decision-making to clarify that the Court is restoring itself to its proper, limited role. 
Article first appeared in the Discourse Magazine by Committee for Justice Legal Fellow Evelyn Johns:

Wyoming Gas Prices Falling Across The State, But Not Because Of Joe Biden.

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Wyoming Gas Prices Falling Across The State, But Not Because Of Joe Biden.

Consumers have noticed that gasoline prices across the state of Wyoming have been falling during the 2024 elections and the 2022 Primary elections. Joe Biden tried to convince voters that he is responsible for bringing the gas prices down he had inflated on day one.

So far, the prices have fallen about 3.5 cents per gallon during this last week.

About 500 gas stations across the state of Wyoming are anywhere from 41.0 cents to 45.0 cents per gallon cheaper than just 30 days ago. But none of the ultra-high gas prices would have happened if Joe Biden did not go to war against the petroleum industry.

Remember, it was Joe Biden who shut down the Keystone Pipeline by Executive order on day one and stopped oil companies from getting any more oil leases or being able to do any further drilling for oil.

America was once energy independent under President Trump, but now is energy dependent solely caused by Joe Biden.

The City Of Billings Adds to The Billings Area Bikeway and Trail Master Plan

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The City Of Billings Adds to The Billings Area Bikeway and Trail Master Plan

BILLINGS TRAIL NEWS – The. Wait. Is. Over. The short and sweet yet critical S 32nd St W arterial connection trail between King Ave W and Gabel Rd is OPEN and READY for running, riding, rolling, and strolling!

As part of the Billings Area Bikeway and Trail Master Plan, this trail contributes to the safer and greener connection between people and places in this lovely town we call home. It also provides recreation and active transportation opportunities for the underserved neighbors in the community.

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What better day to celebrate this connection than Friday, Sept. 9: Ales for Trails day!

The City of Billings and Billings TrailNet invite you to join the celebration on the trail at 11 am! Mark your calendars, Trail Enthusiasts, for this joyful occasion. We look forward to seeing you at 11 am on Friday, Sept. 9, 2022, for a ribbon-cutting ceremony on the corner of S 32nd St. W and Gabel Rd. The winner of a friendly race will pocket a pair of Ales for Trails tickets generously donated by Billings TrailNet. Next, celebrate trails at Billings TrailNet’s biggest fundraiser of the year, Ales for Trails, at 5 pm at ZooMontana.  Tickets to the event will also be available for purchase at the ribbon-cutting celebration.      

Cody Woman, Nina Webber Requested Recount of Ballots Cast In House District #24

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Cody Woman, Nina Webber Requested Recount of Ballots Cast In House District #24

Cody Woman, Nina Webber, has requested a recount of the votes for the Republican House District #24. The votes were very close in the August 16th primary election race, where Nina Webber got 1,727 votes, and Sandy Newsome is reported to have received 1,810 votes which is only an 83 vote spread between the two candidates.

Nina Webber waited until the race had been certified by the canvassing board of Wyoming. According to the Park County Elections Office, once the request is made, they have only 72 hours to complete the request in full. The race for House District #24 is the only race that a recount was requested, and since that district received only about 3,7474 ballots that were actually cast, it will not take long to complete the recount.

Nina Webber waits, as do all the Park County voters to see if the votes were counted correctly. Counting starts Monday at 9:00 A.M. and should be completed by 12:00 noon.

Biden Aides Continue To Exit In Mass, Now Biden’s Own “Body Man” Jumps Ship.

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Biden Aides Continue To Exit In Mass, Now Biden’s Own “Body Man” Jumps Ship.

Biden aides are leaving in droves as they can see that his dementia is getting worse and worse. Now Joe Biden’s closest aide is leaving immediately after finding a different job at the Transportation Department. Biden’s “Body man” Stephen Goepfert has been with Joe Biden since the 2020 campaign that Biden stole from Donald Trump.

Stephen Goepfert has indicated that it has been a nightmare trying to keep Joe Biden’s head above water and concealing just how bad his dementia is. Goepfert has indicated that Biden is disorganized, confused, and forgetful, and it has been a constant battle dealing with Biden’s presidency life and Biden’s private life as both are in a mess.

A continual departure flow of aides is scrambling to leave the White House. Do they know something that the American public does not? Probably.

Goepfert has told the media that Biden requires a caretaker as he should have been put out to pasture long ago. Goepfert’s “body man” replacement will be none other than a White House receptionist by the name of Jacob Spreyer.

The Biden Administration is in deep-tail spin.

Cheyenne SkateBoarder struck By Motorcycle

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Cheyenne SkateBoarder struck By Motorcycle
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