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Cliven Bundy stands in a cattle pen at his ranch, Tuesday, April 9, 2024, in Bunkerville, NV. Ten years have passed since hundreds of protesters including armed riflemen answered a family call for help which forced U.S. agents and contract cowboys to abandon an effort to round up family cattle in a dispute over grazing permits and fees. Despite federal prosecutions, no family members were convicted of a crime. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil)

10 years after armed standoff with federal agents, Bundy cattle are still grazing disputed rangeland

By Ken Ritter - Associated Press

Rancher Bundy’s son arrested in Nevada

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FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2018 file photo, Cliven Bundy talks to reporters outside Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Headquarters in Las Vegas. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal in San Francisco on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020, denied prosecutors' efforts to overturn U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro's decision to stop a months-long trial in January 2018 due to prosecutorial misconduct and her order dismissing the case so it could not be re-filed. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Sun via AP, File)

US appeals court denies bid to resurrect Bundy standoff case

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 20, 2020, file photo, Norma Lewis holds a flower while forming a &quot;wall of moms&quot; during a Black Lives Matter protest in Portland, Ore. When armed protesters took over a remote wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon four years earlier to oppose federal control of public lands, U.S. agents negotiated with the conservative occupiers for weeks while some state leaders begged for stronger action. In July 2020, federal officers sent to Portland, Ore., to quell chaotic protests against racial injustice took swift and, some say, harsh action: launching tear gas, firing less-lethal ammunition and helping arrest more than 40 people in the first two weeks. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Politics drive views of US response to 2 Oregon standoffs

By REBECCA BOONE and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN - Associated Press

In this Jan. 10, 2018 file photo, Cliven Bundy talks to reporters outside Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Headquarters in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Sun via AP, File) **FILE**

Cliven Bundy’s federal lands claim rejected by Nevada judge, calling it ‘simply delusional’

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Ryan Bundy, center, walks out of federal court with his wife Angela Bundy, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) ** FILE **

Ryan Bundy Nevada governor bid emphasizes states’ rights

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Southern Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, left, listens to Independent American Party of Nevada Chairman Joel Hansen before Bundy was scheduled to give the keynote address to the third-party's state convention at the Nugget hotel-casino, Friday, Feb. 23, 2018, in Sparks, Nev. Bundy served 700 days in jail before a U.S. judge in Las Vegas threw out the criminal charges against him and others last month stemming from an armed standoff with federal agents at his ranch near Bunkerville in April 2014. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

Bundy: Judge did US government a favor by throwing out case

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

Southern Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy talks to a reporter before giving the keynote address to the state convention of the Independent American Party of Nevada Friday, Feb. 23, 2018, in Sparks, Nev. Bundy served 700 days in jail before a U.S. judge in Las Vegas threw out the criminal charges against him and others last month stemming from an armed standoff with federal agents at his ranch near Bunkerville in April 2014. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

The Latest: Bundy: judge who dismissed his case did US favor

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Bundy to speak to Independent American Party of Nevada

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Cliven Bundy, sons sue government over public lands

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In this April 11, 2015, file photo, rancher Cliven Bundy speaks at an event in Bunkerville, Nev. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Cliven Bundy, sons file lawsuits over public lands, Oregon standoff

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 16, 2006, file photo, a Mojave Desert tortoise walks near a deserted section of old U.S. 93, east of the Coyote Springs, Nev., development site, about 55 miles north of Las Vegas. In 1990, federal officials listed the Mojave Desert species as threatened across its range, touching off a series of new regulations and initiatives aimed at saving the long-lived reptile. One of the people caught up in the effort to save the tortoise was a Bunkerville rancher named Cliven Bundy, who didn’t take kindly to being told to limit the number of cows he was grazing on public land in northeastern Clark County. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP, File_

Desert tortoise faces uncertain future amid Bundy conflict

By HENRY BREAN - Associated Press

Cliven Bundy refers to his U.S. Constitution while making a point to a reporter following a news conference in front of Metro Police Headquarters on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Sun via AP)

Environmentalists urge Feds to launch another operation to seize Bundy cattle

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 27, 2016, file photo, rancher Cliven Bundy speaks to media while standing along the road near his ranch, in Bunkerville, Nev. The Nevada rancher freed from federal custody this week after his prosecution on conspiracy and assault on government officer charges collapsed is casting himself as having fought the law and winning. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Cliven Bundy may sue federal government for malicious prosecution, civil-rights abuses, lawyer says

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Cliven Bundy walks out of federal court with his wife Carol on Monday, Jan. 8, 2018, in Las Vegas, after a judge dismissed criminal charges against him and his sons accused of leading an armed uprising against federal authorities in 2014. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

Standoff rancher draws advocates’ ire, supporters’ cheers

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

File - In this Dec. 20, 2017, file photo from left, Ammon Bundy, Ryan Payne, Jeanette Finicum, widow of Robert &quot;LaVoy&quot; Finicum, Ryan Bundy, Angela Bundy, wife of Ryan Bundy and Jamie Bundy, daughter of Ryan Bundy, walk out of a federal courthouse in Las Vegas. A U.S. judge who declared a mistrial could on Monday, Jan. 8, 2018, kill the much-watched criminal prosecution of a Nevada rancher accused of leading an armed uprising against federal authorities in April 2014. Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro's decision in Las Vegas is sure to echo among states' rights advocates in Western states where the federal government controls vast expanses that some people want to remain unused and others want open to grazing, mining and oil and gas drilling. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

The Latest: Rancher Cliven Bundy walks out a free man

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From left, Ammon Bundy, Ryan Payne, Jeanette Finicum, widow of Robert &quot;LaVoy&quot; Finicum, Ryan Bundy, Angela Bundy, wife of Ryan Bundy and Jamie Bundy, daughter of Ryan Bundy, walk out of a federal courthouse Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017, in Las Vegas. Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial Wednesday in the case against Cliven Bundy, his sons Ryan and Ammon Bundy and self-styled Montana militia leader Ryan Payne. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Bundys looking to clear charges, not start next land fight

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

Nevada ranching standoff defendant Ryan Payne, facing camera, hugs a friend outside the U.S. District Courthouse in Las Vegas following his release on Friday, Dec. 1, 2017, after 22 months in federal custody. Payne, 34, of Anaconda, Mont., was arrested in 2016 in Oregon following an occupation of a federal wildlife refuge. He is standing trial with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and two Bundy sons in a 2014 armed confrontation with federal agents. (AP Photo/Ken Ritter)

Judge warns of possible mistrial in Cliven Bundy standoff case

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Ryan Bundy, left, walks out of federal court with his wife Angela Bundy, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017, in Las Vegas. Ryan Bundy, along with his father Cliven Bundy, brother Ammon Bundy, and co-defendant Ryan Payne, are accused of leading an armed standoff in 2014 against government agents in a cattle grazing dispute. (AP Photo/John Locher)

The Latest: Lawyer: Militia leader’s goal was protest safety

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FILE - This undated, combination file photo provided by the Multnomah County, Ore., Sheriff's Office shows, from left; Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his sons Ammon Bundy and Ryan Bundy and co-defendant Ryan Payne. Ryan Bundy, who is serving as his own lawyer, was ordered released Monday, Nov. 13, 2017 to a halfway house for the men's trial stemming from a 2014 armed standoff against government agents in a public lands cattle grazing dispute. (Multnomah County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

The Latest: 6th defendant takes plea in Bundy standoff case

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