Supreme Court won't hear marine monument challenge

摘要

The Supreme Court declined to weigh in on whether former President Obama acted lawfully when he created a Connecticut-sized marine monument in the Atlantic Ocean, but it left the door open to similar challenges in the future. The Massachusetts Lobstermen's Association and other commercial fishing groups had asked the nation's highest bench to overturn a 2019 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that upheld Obama's 2016 designation of the 5,000-square-mile Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass.