{"id":863422,"date":"2025-07-18T22:12:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T03:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/18\/justice-department-says-trump-can-undo-monument-designations\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T22:12:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T03:12:39","slug":"justice-department-says-trump-can-undo-monument-designations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/18\/justice-department-says-trump-can-undo-monument-designations\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department says Trump can undo monument designations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president has broad legal authority to fully revoke national monument designations, the Justice Department says in a memorandum that could become the basis to withdraw millions of acres from protected status.\u00a0 The department\u2019s Office of Legal Counsel disavowed a 1938 DOJ determination that presidents can\u2019t revoke a monument designation by a predecessor under the [\u2026]<br \/>\nThe post Justice Department says Trump can undo monument designations appeared first on Roll Call&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2025\/06\/16\/justice-department-says-trump-can-undo-monument-designations\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Marquis Michaud<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president has broad legal authority to fully revoke national monument designations, the Justice Department says in a memorandum that could become the basis to withdraw millions of acres from protected status.\u00a0 The department\u2019s Office of Legal Counsel disavowed a 1938 DOJ determination that presidents can\u2019t revoke a monument designation by a predecessor under the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":863423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,225,192],"tags":[5786,6195],"class_list":{"0":"post-863422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-department","8":"category-justice","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-department","11":"tag-justice"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}