‘Radical left court': Trump lashes delay to controversial BHP, Rio Tinto project
Trump, in a post on Truth Social, called the court - the San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals - a 'radical left court.' He said that those who oppose the mine 'are Anti-American, and representing other copper competitive countries.'
The transfer was scheduled for Tuesday. But a panel of judges with the 9th US District Court of Appeals issued a temporary injunction late on Monday in response to last-minute appeals by a Native American tribe and environmentalists.
The land includes Oak Flat — an area used for centuries for religious ceremonies, prayer and gathering of medicinal plants by the San Carlos Apache people and other Native American tribes.
The fight over Oak Flat has spanned two decades, with the latest legal wrangling centred on a required environmental review that was released by the US Forest Service earlier this summer and an appraisal of the land to be mined by Resolution Copper about 60 miles (96 kilometres) east of Phoenix.
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Before the land exchange can happen, the plaintiffs argued that the federal government must prepare a comprehensive review that covers 'every aspect of the planned mine and all related infrastructure.' They said the government failed to consider the potential for a dam breach, pipeline failure and if there was an emergency plan for a tailings storage area.
As for the appraisal, they said it doesn't account for the value of the copper deposits that are at least 1500 metres below the surface.
The appeals court plans to hear arguments on the merits of the case later this year.
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This is a sample of The Echidna newsletter sent out each weekday morning. To sign up for FREE, go to I wonder what they'd make of the world were they still around to see it. My mother, the political scientist, saw World War II through the eyes of a child, only to shiver through the chill of the Cold War as an adult. Her brother, the journalist, who on his deathbed a quarter of a century ago lamented the creeping aggression in the society he was soon to leave. The world they left was very different to the one that confounds us today. He died the year before Al Qaeda flew the hijacked aircraft into the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon; she almost a year to the day after the US launched its disastrous invasion of Iraq. Both missed the advent of social media and its toxic effect on public discourse. And they were spared the relentless 24-hour news cycle, which was only in its infancy. 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This is a sample of The Echidna newsletter sent out each weekday morning. To sign up for FREE, go to I wonder what they'd make of the world were they still around to see it. My mother, the political scientist, saw World War II through the eyes of a child, only to shiver through the chill of the Cold War as an adult. Her brother, the journalist, who on his deathbed a quarter of a century ago lamented the creeping aggression in the society he was soon to leave. The world they left was very different to the one that confounds us today. He died the year before Al Qaeda flew the hijacked aircraft into the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon; she almost a year to the day after the US launched its disastrous invasion of Iraq. Both missed the advent of social media and its toxic effect on public discourse. And they were spared the relentless 24-hour news cycle, which was only in its infancy. 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This is a sample of The Echidna newsletter sent out each weekday morning. To sign up for FREE, go to I wonder what they'd make of the world were they still around to see it. My mother, the political scientist, saw World War II through the eyes of a child, only to shiver through the chill of the Cold War as an adult. Her brother, the journalist, who on his deathbed a quarter of a century ago lamented the creeping aggression in the society he was soon to leave. The world they left was very different to the one that confounds us today. He died the year before Al Qaeda flew the hijacked aircraft into the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon; she almost a year to the day after the US launched its disastrous invasion of Iraq. Both missed the advent of social media and its toxic effect on public discourse. And they were spared the relentless 24-hour news cycle, which was only in its infancy. 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Surely, the bloated utes and American pick-up trucks would have him rolling in his grave. Would he be horrified by the profusion of digital touch screens and dashboards? I doubt he'd warm to driving an iPad. Nor can I see him coping with the aggression on our roads, which seems to have become worse since he died. Maybe that's because of the ubiquity of the smartphone with its camera, as well as the dashcam - technology he didn't see - recording so many instances of road rage and reckless driving. I think of my mother and uncle frequently these days. Part of me wants to bring them back to life, to talk about the troubling state of the world, to help me make sense of it. But then I baulk. They should rest in peace and be spared the cruelty, vulgarity and idiocy to which we have to bear witness in this first quarter of the 21st century. HAVE YOUR SAY: What would your departed relatives make of the modern world? Has life improved since they were alive? 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"I'm so very tired of hearing of Trump's deals and no deals, and of the winners and losers," writes Deb. "How very sad that he is a role model to a generation of boys and young men. I'm so glad I'm of the age that I'm on my way out, rather than on the way in, I'm ashamed of the world that we're leaving to our young ones." Fiona writes: "The D word has begun to make my skin crawl and blood pressure rise. It's a word for reality TV, not important political and economic negotiations. Using it is playing into Trump's hands and his vision of what official international and domestic relationships should be. The only art to this 'deal' is artifice." "I liked your analogy of comparing some of Trump's ramblings to an old bloke in a bar mumbling his thoughts into a beer, but sadly, we have been adopting Americanisms for many years," writes Stuart. "My current personal hate is the use of the really nice English word 'schedule', but everybody - including news readers, for crying out loud - seems to be using the horrible and grating American pronunciation 'skedule'! I'm sure my English teacher shudders and turns in her grave." James from Bathurst writes: "Thank you for fleshing out the reasons why the word 'deal' is at best inadequate and at worst dangerous. Basically, it lacks respect for the gravity of what is being discussed - the consequences of which people like Mr Trump will never have to face personally or in their own lives." "Thank you for bringing this up, as I have been irritated by the 'D word' for quite a while," writes Patricia. "People are being killed and maimed in Gaza and Ukraine and enduring immense suffering. Having an arrogant old man ignoring all of this and just boasting about his 'deal-making' abilities is truly sickening. He hasn't managed to achieve anything anyway."
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