A lawsuit filed in a Washington, D.C., federal court Wednesday argues that the Antiquities Act gave president Barack Obama the power to designate areas as national monuments in order to protect endangered species, like the Northeast Canyon and Seamounts Marine National Monument he created in 2016, but that only Congress can remove such designations, the Portland (Maine) Press Herald reports. [...]
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