Arizona Governor Asks Judge to Toss Legislature’s Monument Suit

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) wants a court to dismiss the state legislature’s lawsuit challenging a national monument created in 2023 by President Joe Biden near the Grand Canyon.

Hobbs wrote Sept. 13 that the Arizona Legislature’s lawsuit was filed without consulting or speaking with her, the Arizona attorney general, or other state agencies, and that the lawmakers don’t speak for the state.

The Arizona Legislature in its lawsuit said Biden’s creation of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument using the Antiquities Act harmed lawmakers’ jurisdiction over state trust lands around the new preserve. Biden ...