Biden’s National Monuments Power Set for Tenth Circuit Scrutiny

Whether judges can weigh the president’s right to set aside millions of acres of federal land as a national monument will be the central issue in Thursday’s oral arguments before an appeals court panel in Colorado.

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit will hear oral arguments in Garfield County v. Biden, in which the county and the state of Utah claim that President Joe Biden’s re-establishment of the original boundaries of Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments violate the 1906 Antiquities Act because they’re ...