Monuments, Shmonuments!

Dakota Access Pipeline protesters at Standing Rock Reservation, Feb. 22, 2017. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)

While Trump signs an executive order threatening protesters with up to ten years in prison for vandalizing statues, his administration relentlessly pursues resource extraction and other industrial development on a different class of National Monuments at Grand Escalante Staircase, Giant Sequoia and Bears Ears, where the National Resources Defense Council reports, “As of June 9, 2020, briefing on the summary judgment motions is complete and we are…