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Video : Presidential Authority to Revoke or Reduce National Monument Designations
March 31, 2017 | By PLF
This week, PLF's Todd Gaziano and Professor John Yoo (who is also a new member of PLF's Board of Trustees) released a new study that explains why President Trump has the authority to reduce or revoke national monuments. The study was released at a very well attended event on Capitol Hill hosted by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), and opening remarks fr ...
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Are all of Obama’s national monuments permanent? A new AEI paper says no
March 27, 2017 | By TODD GAZIANO
President Obama broke the record for the number of national monument proclamations he issued and the millions of acres of public lands he locked up for such monuments. A few weeks before he left office, President Obama abused the Antiquities Act of 1906 again to proclaim 1.35 million acres in Utah and 300,000 acres in Nevada to be new national monu ...