Permanent injunction: Judge says Confederate statues are here to stay

[TexasTowelie]

A judge has ruled that Charlottesville can’t remove the two Confederate statues that stand downtown, saying Wednesday that doing so would be in violation of a Virginia historical preservation law.

On the first day of a three-day trial, Charlottesville Circuit Court Judge Richard Moore issued a permanent injunction that essentially demolished the defendants’ last argument and decided the outcome of the two-and-a-half-year case that followed City Council’s 2017 votes to remove the Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson statues.

Moore sided with the interpretation of the plaintiffs— the Monument Fund, Sons of Confederate Veterans, and 11 individuals—about the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, arguing that it wouldn’t be legally sound to say the Virginia law that protects war monuments was created with racial prejudice—even if there’s “reasonable suspicion” that it was. He also cited the fact that the law was amended multiple times, explaining that the way it’s applied today doesn’t fall in line with racially discriminatory views.

“Statues do speak, if at all, about history…even history we don’t like,” Moore said.

Read more: https://www.c-ville.com/permanent-injunction-judge-says-confederate-statues-are-here-to-stay/

[rampartc]

1. i don't object to this decision

they do have a historical and public art significance beyond jim crow.

[FoxNewsSucks]

2. Since the statues stay,

seems like it's time to surround them with monuments and displays that depict the accurate story of those losers.

[Yonnie3]

3. Laws can be changed

We've got to get the right people in the Commonwealth of Virginia's legislature to do this.