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Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen said Thursday that President Biden’s shutdown of the Keystone pipeline is really just “pandering to his coastal elite friends.”

AUSTIN KNUDSEN: “Article 1 section 8 of the constitution is very clear. Foreign and interstate commerce regulation is a power reserved to Congress not to the president. President Obama had his chance to veto this back in 2011, this project was approved by Congress. Only Congress can undo its own act. Joe Biden doesn’t get to step in now 10 years later, literally 10 years later and try to veto this project.

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Arizona and Montana are suing to block the Biden administration’s new immigration rules that would dramatically narrow the number of illegal immigrants targeted for arrest and deportation — arguing the policies would have devastating consequences for their states.

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced he has amended a lawsuit that had initially challenged the administration’s attempt to impose a 100-day moratorium on deportations.

That pause was blocked by a judge in response to a lawsuit by Texas after the state argued the policy was in breach of an agreement made in the final days of the Trump administration with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that border states would be consulted before significant changes to border policy.

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Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen was among 14 attorneys general from across the country to call on President Joe Biden to reconsider his decision to revoke the Keystone XL Pipeline’s presidential permit.

More than a dozen Republican states’ attorneys general blasted President Biden’s Keystone XL pipeline opposition in a joint letter Tuesday, urged him to reconsider the move and warned that they were “reviewing” legal options they might take against the administration.

“We write with alarm regarding your unilateral and rushed decision to revoke the 2019 Presidential Permit for the Keystone XL pipeline,” the letter, organized by Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and co-signed by the AGs of 13 other states. “Your decision will result in devastating damage to many of our states and local communities. Even those states outside the path of the Keystone XL pipeline – indeed all Americans – will suffer serious, detrimental consequences.”

“The real-world costs are devastating,” the AGs wrote, adding that canceling pipeline construction will cost thousands of “well-paying jobs,” including union positions, and take additional financial tolls on local governments and businesses that were setting up to work alongside the pipeline.

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A group of 14 state attorneys general sent a letter to President Biden on Tuesday urging him to reconsider his revocation of the Keystone XL pipeline permit, saying the president’s decision will harm thousands of American workers as well as the country at large.

“Your decision will result in devastating damage to many of our states and local communities. Even those states outside the path of the Keystone XL pipeline—indeed all Americans—will suffer serious, detrimental consequences,” the attorneys general wrote in the letter.

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Six state attorneys general in red-leaning states have threatened legal action if President Joe Biden goes too far in implementing radical policies, including the repeal of immigration laws.

The six — from Arkansas, Indiana, Mississippi, Montana, Texas and West Virginia — all signed a letter addressed to Biden expressing concern over the stack of executive orders he’s signed in less than a week and a half in office, per Breitbart.

In the Wednesday letter, the attorneys general said Biden’s work thus far “appears to indicate” his administration “may be following the unfortunate path of executive unilateralism.”

They warned they’ll take action if “cabinet officials, executive officers, and agencies” act beyond their authority. Their concerns included an “extreme ‘Green New Deal’ agenda,” overreaching to make changes in the healthcare system, and “spending sprees without congressional authorizations.”

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Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen ordered Thursday that the Gallatin County attorney dismiss a lawsuit against Rocking R Bar for violating a 10 p.m. closing time ordered by the county health board to stem the spread of the coronavirus.

But County Attorney Marty Lambert fired back, rejecting the order and saying that Knudsen didn’t haven’t any say in the matter because the state isn’t a party in the case.

Knudsen directed Lambert to dismiss the case against the bar, according to a news release on Thursday. He said the 10 p.m. closing time “defies commonsense” and is “devastating to Montana workers and small businesses.”

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