The new opinion states that presidents may remove or reduce protections for monuments that “never were or no longer are ...

If presidents can establish a national monument under the Antiquities Act, they can also remove them, Justice Dept. says in a ...

When President Trump served his first term in the White House, he decided to shrink two monuments in Utah — Bears Ears and the Grand Staircase-Escalante. That resulted in a lawsuit, but before the ...

The Trump administration’s Department of Justice released an opinion the morning of June 10 arguing that presidents have the power to both create and undo national monuments under the 1906 Antiquities ...

Trump officials say presidents can abolish monuments created by predecessors, and California's newest ones — Chuckwalla and ...

Debate is resuming over Donald Trump's first-term belief that as president he could reduce the size of national monuments.

Antiquities Act gave presidents the power to protect objects on public lands. A Justice Dept. memo said the Act also ”carries with it the power to revoke.” ...

On Wednesday, Congressman Raul Ruiz (D-Palm Desert) released a statement defending the Antiquities Act and the state’s public ...

The Antiquities Act of 1906, signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt, gave Congress or the president the authority to establish national monuments on federal land as a means of protecting ...

A Justice Department legal opinion released Tuesday disavowed a 1938 determination that monuments created by previous ...

The legal opinion upends a 1938 document used by presidents of both parties. But it's still unclear if he'll tear up popular ...