On Aug. 7, the night before Biden’s designation, Republican House and Senate leaders hosted an emergency special meeting in Kingman to hear testimony from local officials and concerned community members.
SHONDIIN SILVERSMITH
Arizonan Mirror
Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen announced Friday that he is giving the “greenlight” to the Arizona Senate to file a lawsuit against the Biden administration for last month’s designation of a national monument near the Grand Canyon, which he said was an unconstitutional “land grab.”
“President Biden’s attempt to cloak his unconstitutional land grab in the name of the Grand Canyon is not fooling Arizona,” Petersen said in a statement to the Arizona Mirror. “The Grand Canyon is already protected.”
The call for a lawsuit comes a little over a month after President Joe Biden visited Arizona to announce the newly designated Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument on Aug. 8, effectively barring mining on roughly a million acres of land in northern Arizona near Grand Canyon National Park.
“The monument designation is nothing more than a re-election stunt meant to pander to radical environmentalists who want to shut down uranium mining and make us energy-dependent on China,” Petersen said. “The Senate is committed to standing up against Joe Biden’s unlawful and harmful executive actions.”
On Aug. 7, the night before Biden’s designation, Republican House and Senate leaders hosted an emergency special meeting in Kingman to hear testimony from local officials and concerned community members.
