Biden Is Bidding To Use ‘Antiquities Act’ To Bar Logging and Mining on Public Lands

‘Who makes the laws regarding federal land management, Congress or the Executive Branch?’

AP/Jeff Barnard, file
Pilot Rock in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument near Lincoln, Oregon. AP/Jeff Barnard, file

It can be hard to see the forest for the trees when it comes to curbing the excesses of the regulatory state. That’s in part because federal bureaucrats are so used to bending the letter of the law to meddle in the economy. All the more reason for the Supreme Court to take a case that would stop President Biden from misusing a 1906 law, the Antiquities Act — meant to protect historic sites from artifact looting — to bar logging and mining on public lands.

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