BY ROBERT D. ROSENBAUM
Critics of national monuments created by President Obama — particularly the Bears Ears monument in Utah — have long argued that President Trump should revoke Obama’s orders establishing them. Meanwhile, the House Natural Resources Committee declared this month that it plans to work with the Trump administration to identify which declared monuments should be “rescinded or diminished in size.”
On March 8, Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (Ariz.) — the ranking Democrat on the committee — wrote a letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke asking for his opinion on the president’s power to take such actions. But regardless of what opponents of the monuments think about the matter, the president has no unilateral power to revoke a national monument...