Four times in less than a year Utah has brought in outside lawyers to defend a high-profile bill passed by the Legislature. In three of those cases, it’s the same law firm. And it comes at a hefty price for taxpayers, Robert Gehrke writes. write
. Green’s pitch to the body is not just rolling back the boundaries like former President Donald Trump did during his administration, but gutting the Antiquities Act by getting a U.S. Supreme Court ruling prohibiting large-scale monument designations in the future.
And before anyone chalks this up to politics, I’ll acknowledge I disagree with Green’s politics. He’s a member of The Federalist Society, a powerful cabal of conservative lawyers and, a nonprofit controlled by right-wing activist Leonard Leo and bankrolled by a massive $1.6 billion contribution of stock shares from electronics mogul Barre Seid, believed to be the largest such donation ever.
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