Arizona Rancher Sues Biden Over Million Acre Land Grab For Monument
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Land grabbing Biden admin. 😡
'A sixth-generation rancher, Chris Heaton, is suing the Biden administration for abusing the Antiquities Act to designate a million acres of land in Arizona as a national monument.
“The Antiquities Act exists to protect Native American archeological sites, not to give presidents unlimited power to declare vast swaths of land and sea out of bounds for productive use,” said Frank Garrison, an attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation. “In our system of government, Congress makes the law, and presidents are not allowed to ignore the constraints Congress places on their authority.”
The Antiquities Act empowers the president to erect monuments on federally owned or controlled land, but only historic landmarks, prehistoric structures, or other objects of historical or scientific significance may be designated.
The statute also limits the size of a monument to what is required for the care and management of validly protected objects.
In creating the “Ancestral Footprints National Monument,” President Biden designated entire landscapes, species, plants, and many other “objects” that go well beyond the scope of the Antiquities Act.
This loose definition of “object” is far beyond what the Antiquities Act permits, according to the lawsuit. The million acres encompassed by the monument flouts the Act’s limit on the size of such designations.
When the Supreme Court declined to hear a previous case challenging a similarly excessive monument designation, Chief Justice Roberts sounded the alarm, noting that “[a] statute permitting the President in his sole discretion to designate as monuments ‘landmarks,’ ‘structures,’ and ‘objects’—along with the smallest area of land compatible with their management—has been transformed into a power without any discernible limit to set aside vast and amorphous expanses of terrain above and below the sea.”
Heaton is fighting for the right to use the land his family has been ranching for six generations and insisting that the Biden administration and future presidents adhere to the Constitution’s separation of powers.'
What's next Washington & Oregon to save 'Big Foot'?
Don't give them ideas. Last sighting of Big Foot: https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/bae168b481098400137b66e8e62542fbe90c9693/c=0-54-3000-1746/local/-/media/USATODAY/theOval/2014/09/03/1409756455000-GTY-453245990-66318128.JPG
Evil. Is the land on a border?
No sure. I did a search but I couldn't find any more specifics than in this article.
https://pacificlegal.org/case/antiquities-act-grand-canyon/
It’s between Moonshine Ridge and Kanab Creek.
T/u!.
Stealing a man's heritage , Biden terrorism against the People, God bless he wins. .
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Not to support what the commies are doing, but part of the land that is in question is BLM land that he was renting.
Rather than renting it to lower costs, situations like this need to find ways to take possession of the land. There is no reason for the federal government to continue owning it. If we let them claim ownership, don’t be surprised when they take it.
We need to call CONgress! "Thank you for calling, If you want to hold press #1, When your tired of waiting press #2, If you won't give up press #3, Are you still there & want the nite shift press #4, Good morning, thank you for calling, if you want to hold press #1.......
Money is not free and in spite of what it looks like, it's not backed only by good faith and credit of the US gov't.
When the US was taken off the gold standard in 1971, another reservoir of value had to be employed to back US debt. The EPA was created in 1971. It has abusively and without a lawof Congress caused US land to come under US Gov't control, and this abuse of "monuments" at 1MM acres at a pop places more land into the control and administration by the US govt. Obama was famous for grabbing land for this purpose. No surprise that Biden is doing the same as our national debt spirals.
Putin was recently quoted as having a mineral valuation inside Russia's borders totalling close to $80 Trillion. Last week it was reported that the largest rare earth metals discovery in the world was just made in Wyoming. No telling what the total of the value of US land wealth is but just know that our Congress is borrowing aginst that value at the same time the Fed is bankrupting us out of existence.
Excellent points. Gives this story much more importance. We know the globalists want to lock up all the land and put people into 15 minute cities. What better way than just grab up land and call it a national monument for any any reason whatsoever.