DOJ Memo Gives Trump A Green Light To Dismantle National Monuments
“The power to declare carries with it the power to revoke,” a Trump official wrote in a legal memo.
A legal official at the Department of Justice has concluded that President Donald Trump has the authority to not only shrink but completely abolish areas protected as national monuments. The memo provides the legal framework for a broad reduction of federal land protections that Trump officials have alluded to for months.
DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel ta…
