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Goal of Utah’s monument lawsuit: Take down the Antiquities Act

Consovoy McCarthy, the state’s outside law firm, stands to reap millions in fees getting case before the Supreme Court.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Bears Ears buttes April 10, 2021. The namesake formation would be one of the few sites to remain in Bears Ears National Monument should Utah prevail in a lawsuit filed last month to invalidate President Joe Biden's order to restore Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes has hired the Consovoy McCarthy law firm to litigate the case all the way to the Supreme Court in hopes of gutting the 1906 Antiquities Act.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Bears Ears buttes April 10, 2021. The namesake formation would be one of the few sites to remain in Bears Ears National Monument should Utah prevail in a lawsuit filed last month to invalidate President Joe Biden's order to restore Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes has hired the Consovoy McCarthy law firm to litigate the case all the way to the Supreme Court in hopes of gutting the 1906 Antiquities Act.

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