Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach joins Texas and Oklahoma in suing the Biden administration.

 The states argue that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law by designating the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species in Kansas under the Endangered Species Act.

 Kobach says bureaucrats in their offices 1,000 miles away are making decisions that will directly affect Kansans’ lives. He says the listing will make drilling new oil wells in western Kansas almost impossible, it will force ranchers to get approval from federally designated agencies to graze cattle on their own property, and it will have devastating impacts on Kansas ranchers, Kansas oil producers, and even Kansas wind farms.
 According to the lawsuit, the listing fails to adequately consider pre-existing and ongoing voluntary measures to protect the lesser prairie chickens, as well as the fact that rainfall amounts are the dominant factor in prairie chicken populations.  It also restricts the personal property rights of Kansas landowners. And, the suit argues, it is unconstitutional.
 A full view of the complaint can be viewed here.