Radewagen supports amicus brief concerning Antiquities Act in relation to PRIMNM

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Delegate Uifa’atali Amata Radewagen (R-A. Samoa) on Thursday filed a letter in support of the amici brief in the Supreme Court concerning abusive use of the Antiquities Act, which has been used to create and expand the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument.

“The PRIMNM was over the size of California when first created, then expanded to four times that, and now proposals exist to make it as large an area as the United States,” said Radewagen. “It is just abusive to take away an area of waters the size of our country and potentially remove all our fishing rights in this immense area. I encouraged the court along with my 28 congressional colleagues to oppose expansion and curb such abuses.”

Radewagen’s letter to the Supreme Court of the United States supports a Congressional Amici Curiae Brief filed in the matters of American Forest Resource Council v. the United States of America and Murphy Company v. Biden.

Radewagen’s letter states: “As Congresswoman of American Samoa and a Congressional Western Caucus member and vice chair whose jurisdiction has been impacted by the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument creation and expansion I join my 28 Congressional colleagues in support of the amici brief related to Antiquities Act abuses.”

She continues, “An amicus brief to the Supreme Court supporting the limiting of presidential authority under the Antiquities Act was filed in support of the petitions for writ of certiorari urging the Supreme Court to review American Forest Resource Council v. the United States of America and Murphy Company v. Biden.” (PR)