With the stroke of a pen, Biden violated Chris Heaton's property rights.
In August 2023, Biden issued a proclamation turning 917,618 federal acres in northern Arizona into the Ancestral Footprints National Monument by wielding the power of the Antiquities Act, a law intended for the protection of archeological sites or landmarks and their immediate, surrounding acreage.
Biden dropped a blanket of government regulation on every inch of the Monument, an area 150,000 acres larger than Yosemite, and 75,000 acres bigger than the Grand Teton National Park and Great Smoky Mountains Park put together. Biden's proclamation covers landscapes, species, and objects—named and unnamed—within all 917,618 acres, including plateaus, canyons, tributaries, remnants of homes, storage buildings, pottery, tools, other physical remnants of human habitation, 50 species of plants, groundwaters that flow into the Colorado River, geological features, cliffs, faults, deserts, grasslands, woodlands, forests, riparian vegetation, and a variety of endangered species.
Biden ignored the limits of the Antiquities Act of 1908, a statute that was not only written by Congress outlining a very narrow scope for the White House to use and to protect Native American archeological sites from being looted. None of the facts or intent of the law mattered to Biden. Nor did it matter to His Fraudulency that people, like Chris Heaton, who have owned and operated ranches in the area for many years would have their lives ruined.
Biden is so desperate to score points with his Jacobin base that he decided to not only destroy Chris Heaton's property rights but also his livelihood. Heaton's way of life, including those of loggers and miners, is now sacrificed on the altar of Gaia. Unfortunately, according to his lawyers with the Pacific Legal Foundation, courts usually defer to the Executive Branch in matters like this. However, PLF also notes that even Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has expressed concern about the powers Biden has assumed citing the Antiquities Act. Hopefully, Chris Heaton will prevail in court.
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