Supreme Court Won’t Hear Challenges to President’s Power to Create National Monuments

The Supreme Court declined to take up two lawsuits challenging the ability of the U.S. president to declare federal lands to be national monuments. The nation’s highest court denied the petitions for certiorari, or review, on March 25, in the cases of Murphy Company v. Biden and American Forest Resource Council v. United States, in an unsigned order. The court did not explain the decisions. Conservative justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh dissented from the denial of certiorari but did not explain why. At least four of the nine justices must vote to grant a petition for it to advance to the oral argument stage....