Judge: New Orleans can remove 4th Confederate-era monument

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 4:52 pm, Thursday, March 9, 2017


NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge has cleared the way for New Orleans officials to remove a fourth Confederate-era monument.

The Liberty Monument, honoring whites who rebelled against a Reconstruction government, is among four the City Council voted to remove in December 2015. The vote led to litigation by opponents of the removal.

On Monday, a federal appeals court said three statues dedicated to Confederate leaders could be removed.

Late Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier ruled that the Liberty Monument could go. The Liberty Monument case was tied up in additional, longer-standing litigation.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Judge-New-Orleans-can-remove-4th-Confederate-era-10990713.php

[cstanleytech]

1. So on what basis did they try to stop the removal? I would think that unless it's of major

architectural or artistic merit that removal should be relatively easy.

[Hulk]

2. We're talking the "Twenty-first Century confederacy" here....

To many in the South...the Civil War was a most humiliating experience, and they still live the confederacy. Hence, much of the hatred for the American government in general.

I know there are good and decent people living in the South; but there is enough of that separatist mentality and hatred toward those "damned Negroes that brought on the Civil War", and keeping their flag waving and their monuments to confederate players will live on.

IMHO.

[cstanleytech]

3. I am aware of the mentality having sadly lived here in the south for the past 28 years

I was simply wondering on what legal grounds did they seek to block the removal.

[Nitram]

4. I have the same question. I'm a Virginia resident.