US EditionJudge dismisses lawsuit challenging Grand Canyon national monument
- A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit from Republican state lawmakers challenging the Biden administration's designation of the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.
- Judge Stephen McNamee ruled that the lawmakers lacked standing to sue and that such authority belongs to the executive branch.
- The lawsuit claimed the monument's creation violated the Antiquities Act, but McNamee found the plaintiffs did not establish necessary legal standing.
- Tribal leaders supported the monument, which protects 917,618 acres and includes many cultural and historic sites.
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Judge: President Petersen, Ben Toma lack standing in national monument suit
A federal judge has tossed out a bid by Republican state lawmakers to overturn the designation of nearly a million acres of federal land near the Grand Canyon that the Biden administration had dedicated as a national monument. In a ruling filed Jan. 27, U.S. District Court Judge Stephen McNamee said Senate President Warren Petersen and Ben Toma, the former speaker of the House, lack standing to even bring a claim in federal court over creation l…
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