Celeste Maloy is Ammon Bundy's cousin. Would that impact her views on public lands in Congress? [View all]

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“I would love to see the state have jurisdiction over (public lands) someday — right now we don’t,” Maloy, the GOP candidate in Utah’s special congressional election, said in an interview.

By Emily Anderson Stern and Bryan Schott | Oct. 22, 2023, 6:00 a.m.

Maloy has ridden her southern Utah connections and rural roots to rocket from a virtually unknown Washington, D.C., staffer to the cusp of winning Utah’s 2nd Congressional District seat in Congress.
On the campaign trail, the Republican has frequently highlighted the issue of public lands. Like some other Republican politicians in Western states — and her Bundy relatives — Maloy believes individual states, not the federal government, should have jurisdiction over those lands.
The Bundys’ views are widely considered extreme by expert organizations like the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Southern Poverty Law Center.

It’s all rooted in a fundamental willful misreading of the Constitution,” Aaron Weiss, deputy director of the Center for Western Priorities, said of their views. “All of these folks just ignore the text of the Constitution and 200 years of jurisprudence,” he adds. “The Constitution makes it clear — Congress has the ultimate say over federal lands. That is the beginning and the end of it.”

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2023/10/22/celeste-maloy-is-ammon-bundys/


Cliven Bundy is her uncle and Ammon Bundy is her cousin. There appear to be very close ties among them although Ammon has endorsed another candidate in the primary for the same seat.

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