U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, Gov. Mark Gordon and 26 members of the Wyoming Legislature — a majority members of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus — filed briefs this week urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a lawsuit brought by the state of Utah that could result in more than 200 million acres of federal lands being turned over to Western states.
Hageman and the Utah delegation argue that the federal government’s ownership of land in Western states denies them equal statehood and representation when compared to other states with less federal acreage.
Utah wants the Supreme Court to rule on whether states or the federal government have sovereignty or BLM lands and if it’s fair for residents of these states to face changing regulations on these lands…