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Government Asks Court To Dismiss Utah's Bid To Shrink National Monuments

A bid by Utah officials to see the boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments shrunk should be dismissed because they have not demonstrated a cause of action for the court to consider nor has the federal government waived its sovereign immunity to allow a lawsuit against it, according to a motion filed by the federal government.
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Utah Seems To Be Angling For A Friendly Supreme Court In Its Bid To Shrink Monuments

Utah authorities appear to be hoping their lawsuit aimed at shrinking the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments reaches the U.S. Supreme Court, where Chief Justice John Roberts a little more than a year ago expressed interest in exploring how big is too big when it comes to a monument established by a president under The Antiquities Act.

Utah Sues To Overturn Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante Boundaries

The state of Utah and two counties in the state went to federal court on Wednesday in a bid to overturn the latest boundary change to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, arguing that President Biden overreached the authority given him under The Antiquities Act.

Review | This Contested Land: The Storied Past And Uncertain Future Of America’s National Monuments

McKenzie Long is a rock climber, graphic designer, and writer who, inspired by the “contest” over the Bears Ears National Monument where she loved to climb in the Indian Creek basin, decided to visit a select group of national monuments to gain a deeper understanding of why and how they are contested.” Her travels take her from Maine’s Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument to Hawaii, just beyond which is the vast Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.

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