State lawmakers have no legal right to try to invalidate the designation of nearly a million acres of federal land near the Grand Canyon as a national monument, the Biden administration is telling a federal judge.
Arizona lawmakers have no legal right to fight the designation of federal land near the Grand Canyon as a national monument, the Biden administration says in a new court filing.
Republican-backed legislation in the U.S. Congress would make it harder for the government to designate new national monuments. The proposed Congressional Oversight of the Antiquities Act, sponsored by Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, would eliminate the presidential authority to designate national monuments on public lands without the approval of Congress. That approval would have to come