Biden created Chuckwalla monument in the desert. Lawsuit aims to undo it. [View all]

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LATimes

A lawsuit filed in federal court is seeking to undo the 624,000-acre Chuckwalla National Monument in the Southern California desert, claiming President Biden overstepped his authority by setting aside such a vast swath of land days before leaving office.

Plaintiffs represented by an Austin, Texas-based conservative think tank claim Biden abused the Antiquities Act, a 1906 law that allows presidents to create national monuments. The suit brought against the Interior Department highlights that the law mandates monuments be limited to the “smallest area compatible with proper care and management of the objects to be protected.”

Janessa Goldbeck, chief executive of Vet Voice Foundation, a nonprofit representing veterans, said the suit makes numerous false claims.

"We have a Texas special interest group representing a guy from Michigan trying to undo something that Californians love and fought for,” she said. “So I think it’s important that we see it for what it is, which is an ideological attempt by out-of-state special interests to sell off our public lands here in California.”

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