Disturbing Trend: Federal Judges Disregard Mining Laws

September 2019 by Chris Ralph

Recently, a left-leaning Arizona federal judge, James Soto, who is an Obama appointee, shut down a proposed copper mining project for the flimsiest of reasons. He basically disregarded and rewrote federal mining law.

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