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Biden administration responds to state lawmakers’ suit over national monument

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President Joe Biden hands the pen to Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., after signing a proclamation designating the Baaj Nwaavjo I'Tah Kukveni National Monument at the Red Butte Airfield on Aug. 8 in Tusayan, Ariz. Republican lawmakers are following in Donald Trump’s footsteps, questioning the constitutionality of an old law Biden is using to expand national monument protections. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden administration responds to state lawmakers’ suit over national monument

State lawmakers have no legal right to try to invalidate the designation of nearly a million acres of federal land near the Grand Canyon as a national monument, the Biden...

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