Sons of Confederate Veterans take UT statue case to Texas high court
A state appeals court denied a request Friday from the Sons of Confederate Veterans to block a lower court ruling that cleared the way for the University of Texas to move statues of Jefferson Davis and Woodrow Wilson off of its Main Mall.
The Texas branch of the group and two individuals then asked the Texas Supreme Court to issue an emergency injunction. That request was pending Friday evening.
On Thursday, Karin Crump, a state District Court judge in Travis County, denied the plaintiffs’ request for a temporary injunction that would have barred UT from moving the bronze likenesses of Davis, who was president of the Confederate states, and Wilson, the nation’s 28th president. Crump said state law grants UT authority over its statues.
Attorneys for the Confederate group had likened UT’s plan to the destruction of statuary and other cultural works in the Mideast by the Islamic State group, and argued the statues could be damaged if they are moved.
Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/appeals-court-denies-request-to-keep-ut-statues-in/nnSwJ/
[font color=330099]Equating religious and cultural symbols that existed for centuries with the statue of the leader of the side that lost the Civil War seems to be stretching a comparison.[/font]
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