Two lawsuits challenge Lee statue's removal; Northam says 'divisive' monument 'needs to come down'
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
As two legal challenges seek to block the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue on Richmond's Monument Avenue, Gov. Ralph Northam said Tuesday that the "divisive" symbol has to go.
The suits challenge Northam's plans to take down the most well-known Confederate symbol in the former capital of the Confederacy. One suit, which hinges on language in the deed signed in 1890 giving Virginia control of the statue, led a Richmond judge Monday night to pause the state's removal plans.
A second lawsuit, also filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Richmond, with no decision yet, says the removal would violate federal landmark law.
In an 18-page complaint filed Monday in Richmond Circuit Court, William C. Gregory, the great-grandson of two signatories of the deed, argues that under the terms of the 1890 agreement and a legislature-approved resolution, the state is supposed to consider the monument and the area around it "perpetually sacred" and "faithfully guard it and affectionately protect it."
Read more: https://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/watch-now-two-lawsuits-challenge-lee-statues-removal-northam-says-divisive-monument-needs-to-come/article_ab073021-aea5-55f0-96e4-c8ccc47cd361.html
roamer65
(36,747 posts)ace3csusm
(969 posts)Last edited Wed Jun 10, 2020, 12:31 PM - Edit history (1)
They loss the war...I think this is where the participation trophies started...
luvtheGWN
(1,336 posts)He led the Confederate Army against the Union. I'd say he should be tarred by the the same brush as Benedict Arnold.
ace3csusm
(969 posts)maxsolomon
(33,384 posts)Judges can't block something that already happened.
Rural_Progressive
(1,107 posts)Take the damn thing, put in a museum where it will be "perpetually sacred" and "faithfully guard it and affectionately protect it."
ret5hd
(20,515 posts)will blaspheme in its direction.
ace3csusm
(969 posts)4139
(1,893 posts)Rural_Progressive
(1,107 posts)lonely bird
(1,687 posts)Put it one battlefield as long as any commentary posted with it focuses on their treason. And their racism.
yankee87
(2,175 posts)Throw it into a river and say it tripped.
TheFourthMind
(343 posts)Fuck Robert E. Lee. Fuck the confederacy. And fuck the South that thinks it will ever rise again. That's never gonna happen. And soon enough the folks that support this nonsense are going to be about as useful in this country as a confederate soldier was, is, or would be.
ace3csusm
(969 posts)Arent they saying they want to over throw the current government...