Trump bid to shrink monuments could prompt big legal battle By Jennifer Yachnin, Heather Richards | 06/12/2025 01:41 PM EDT The Justice Department this week published legal guidance for the White ...

A Justice Department legal opinion released Tuesday disavowed a 1938 determination that monuments created by previous presidents under the Antiquities Act can't be revoked.

The Trump Justice Department reverses longstanding legal opinion on national monuments, claiming presidents can revoke designations.

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

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

President Trump can abolish national monuments that were protected from energy development and other activities by past presidents, the Justice Department (DOJ) has determined. The department issue… ...

President Donald Trump has the power to abolish two national monuments in California established by his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden, as well as any others created by past presidents ...

Trump gets the OK to end protections for national monuments, from the Statue of Liberty to the Grand Canyon President has taken steps to shrink monuments in the past, including Utah’s Bears Ears ...

Fragments of toppled Civil War monuments still lie in a lot beside Interstate 95, near the Richmond Wastewater Treatment Plant—just a stone’s throw from the iconic "Marlboro Cigarette" in ...

Lawyers for President Donald Trump’s administration say he has the authority to abolish national monuments meant to protect historical and archaeological sites ...

The Trump administration is considering shrinking the boundaries of six national monuments to open them up for resource extraction, according to insiders and a leaked draft of an Interior ...

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum confirmed Friday the administration is reviewing the boundaries of several national monuments — meaning it eventually could move to shrink them. “When we’re ...