PHOENIX -- Rebuffed by a federal judge, Republican state legislative leaders want an appellate court to give them a chance to void the decision by former President Joe Biden to designate nearly a million acres in northern Arizona as a national monument.
In new filings Wednesday, attorney Justin Smith is arguing that U.S. District Court Judge Stephen McNamee got it wrong in January when he concluded that House Speaker Steve Montenegro and Senate President Warren Petersen have no legal standing to challenge creation of the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni -- Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.
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