Judge blocks attempt to remove Charlottesville Confederate statues

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Judge blocks attempt to remove Charlottesville Confederate statues

Associated Press in Charlottesville, Virginia
Sat 14 Sep 2019 12.55 BST

Efforts to remove the statue of Robert E Lee which was at the centre of deadly far-right violence in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 have been blocked in court.

The Daily Progress reported that a three-day civil trial that ended on Friday included a ruling preventing the removal of statues of Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, both Confederate generals in the American civil war of 1861-65.

In August 2017, the planned removal by the city of the Lee statue prompted a white nationalist rally and counter-protests in which a counter-protester, Heather Heyer, was killed.

The statues were covered after the death of Heyer. Judge Richard Moore ordered the covers removed last year.

Charlottesville residents sued the city government over the attempt to remove the statues, citing a state law that protects war memorials, months before the “Unite the Right” rally of August 2017.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/14/judge-blocks-charlottesville-confederate-statues

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Related: Judge to award attorneys fees, rules against damages over Confederate statue shrouds (The Daily Progress)

[Caliman73]

1. So then statues to traitors and enemies of the US are cool?

I can put up that statue of Hitler or Hirohito? Because that is the equivalent of what Jackson and Lee are. They took up arms against the United States causing the death of 300,000 Americans and another 300,000 traitors.

[MichMan]

4. Pretty sure you can put up any statue you want to as a private citizen

[Ilsa]

2. Move the stupid statues to a confederate cemetery.

If they are not gone in six months, I hope hope someone torches them.

[harumph]

3. People need to "vote" with their hammers.

[real Cannabis calm]

5. During suspicious vote recounts during the next election...

Wait and see what all those Trump-appointed federal judges block!

They'll slam the gavel down and block election recounts with one word: DISMISSED