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Related: About this forumRoberts Harangues Marine Monument as Appeal Runs Aground
WASHINGTON (CN) The U.S. Supreme Court nixed a challenge Monday to a fishing ban in a massive swath of the Atlantic Ocean that the federal government enshrined as the first-of-its-kind marine monument.
That the court is selective about what cases it hears is widely known dozens of cases are summarily rejected every week, and todays order list proved no exception. Singling out this case for attention, however, Chief Justice John Roberts took the unusual step this morning of essentially calling it open season for challenges of the marine monument.
A statute permitting the president in his sole discretion to designate as monuments landmarks, structures, and objects along with the smallest area of land compatible with their management has been transformed into a power without any discernible limit to set aside vast and amorphous expanses of terrain above and below the sea, Roberts wrote in a statement about the case.
The statute to which Roberts is referring is the federal Antiquities Act, invoked in 2016 by former President Barack Obama to designate a Connecticut-sized area of commercial fishing zone as the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument.
https://www.courthousenews.com/roberts-harangues-marine-monument-as-appeal-runs-aground/
elleng
(130,740 posts)The Antiquities Act of 1906, is an act that was passed by the United States Congress and signed into law by Theodore Roosevelt on June 8, 1906. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiquities_Act
brush
(53,743 posts)qazplm135
(7,447 posts)enough of the other Justices to agree to hear the case.
Takes more than one.
2naSalit
(86,332 posts)Actually it was THREE marine designations.
https://grist.org/article/republican/
How come those aren't being challenged?