The Arizona legislature can’t challenge a national monument that the state’s governor supports, an appeals court panel ruled Wednesday.
GOP state lawmakers, the state treasurer, and three local governments don’t have standing to challenge former President Joe Biden’s 2023 Antiquities Act proclamation creating Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit panel ruled.
The not-for-publication decision affirms the US District Court for the District of Arizona’s 2025 dismissal of the lawsuit on the grounds that the lawmakers don’t have standing.
The state legislature and ...
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