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STATES RIGHTS ATTACKED
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The USGOV under J.Reno makes it's Spring Offensive in Nevada
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LAS VEGAS - Citing threats against FEDERAL workers, the Justice
Department sued a Nevada county Wednesday in an effort to QUELL
a states' rights REBELLION under way in 35 counties in FIVE
Western States.
The lawsuit filed in Las Vegas seeks to "put to rest the idea
that any county has the RIGHT to enact LAWS to override the Constitution,
" John Schmidt, associate U.S. attorney general, said in a telephone
interview from Washington.
Schmidt said the suit was filed against officials of Nye County,
which covers a vast tract of south-central Nevada, because federal
workers there had been THREATENED and INTIMIDATED by county officials.
At issue is the so-called County Supremacy Movement, or Sagebrush
Rebellion II, in which local governments assert OWNERSHIP over federal
lands. In Nevada, 87 percent of the land is claimed or managed by the
federal government; Nye County, Nevada's largest, includes much of
Nellis Air Force Base and all of the Nevada Test Site.
The original Sagebrush Rebellion involved mostly state-level protests
of federal ownership in the 1970s.
In the NEW MOVEMENT, officials of 35 counties in Nevada, California,
New Mexico, Idaho and Oregon have PASSED MEASURES claiming the RIGHT
to federally administered land.
In most cases, "NOTHING HAS HAPPENED beyond the county commission
enacting an ordinance, then going out to dinner," Schmidt said.
But in Nye County, federal officials said, local officials sent a
bulldozer to do road construction in the Toiyabe National Forest and
THREATENED federal workers with LEGAL ACTION if they continued to oversee
federal land.
The county passed a resolution in 1993 CLAIMING Nevada, not the
United States, owns national forests and other lands, giving Nye
officials the authority to manage the lands. A later resolution claimed
OWNERSHIP of virtually every road on federal lands within the county.
Rachel Nicholson, Nye County deputy district attorney, said the
county resolutions carry no weight of law. And she said they are not
aimed at any land on the huge Nellis bombing range or the Nevada Test
Site, where nuclear weapons have been tested.
The FEDERAL lawsuit seeks to STRIKE DOWN the two resolutions as
violations of the U.S. Constitution, and also seeks a permanent
injunction preventing their implementation.
Nye County Commissioner Dick Carver, a leader in the "County
Supremacy Movement," said he WELCOMED the lawsuit.
"This will bring it to a head," Carver said. "This is what we've
been WAITING for."
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