On the eve of the 190th anniversary of the Antiquities Act, the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel concluded that the president has the authority to diminish or revoke national monuments.

Congress should drop attempt to curb the use of presidential power Since 1906 when Congress bestowed upon U.S. presidents the power to use executive orders to set aside certain public lands for ...

In 2021, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts made an extraordinary statement in response to a case called Massachusetts Lobstermen's Association v. Raimondo, which challenged presidential ...

By contrast, the Antiquities Act only let the president reserve land as monuments, Squillace said. He and his co-authors take that to be a conscientious decision by Congress to keep for itself the ...

Project 2025 Seeks To Repeal One of America’s Greatest Conservation Tools The Antiquities Act, a popular bipartisan executive tool for protecting lands as national monuments, is at risk of being ...

PHOENIX, AZ — Conservation groups filed a motion to intervene yesterday in defense of President Biden’s designation of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National ...

To some, the Antiquities Act of 1906 is a ploy for a land grab by an over-reaching federal government. To others, it’s the most impactful conservation law in American history.