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Senator presses nominee over DOJ opinion saying presidents can abolish national monuments
Summary
At a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing, a senator asked an unnamed nominee how they would treat recently designated national monuments in California after a Department of Justice opinion saying presidents may abolish monuments.
At a hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, an unnamed senator said the Department of Justice published an opinion the day before the hearing "that asserts that the presidents have the authority to abolish national monuments," and asked an unnamed nominee for the record what their intentions were toward recently designated monuments in California.
The senator told the nominee the opinion was "an extremely dangerous opinion that flies in the faith of 90 years of precedent," and described recent monument work in California as "personal for me," saying…
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