Justice fights to keep Clinton monument edicts intact

[LauraK]

Attacks against President Clinton's proclamation restricting access to seven national monuments and millions of acres of public land have reached the Supreme Court, where President Bush's administration is defending the discretion Mr. Bush once denounced.
The Justice Department is asking the justices to reject two challenges to Clinton proclamations that Mr. Bush and running mate Dick Cheney, in the 2000 campaign, called "willy-nilly" and vowed to review, perhaps nullify. The question of Mr. Clinton possibly exceeding president's powers was a charged issue.
"We found it painfully ironic but that's unfortunately the way things sometimes go," said Washington lawyer Gary G. Stevens, who represents Tulare County, Calif., in opposing the April 15, 2000, creation of "Giant Sequoia National Monument," which barred logging on a third of a million acres in Sequoia National Forest.

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