AG Bob Ferguson invites Trump to Washington state for a look-see, threatens to sue him again
OLYMPIA — In hopes of protecting Washington’s national monuments, Attorney General Bob Ferguson invited President Donald Trump and U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to visit the state.
But if the federal government attempts to roll back those federally protected lands, Ferguson said, he’ll sue the administration once again.
Ferguson, who has already sued over the president’s travel ban, is playing both good-cop and bad-cop against Trump’s recent action reviewing national-monument designations.
Trump in late April signed an executive order directing a review of lands recently designated under the U.S. Antiquities Act.
In a letter Thursday to Zinke, Ferguson argued that the Antiquities Act is “the cornerstone of American conservation” and that Trump and Zinke don’t have the legal authority to roll back a national-monument.
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