Virginia Supreme Court rules Confederate
statues of Lee, Jackson can come down
Posted By: Ribicon, 4/1/2021 12:44:49 PM
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Confederate statues of Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson in Charlottesville can be removed, after a years-long legal battle involving attempts to preserve the historic Civil War memorials. Justice S. Bernard Goodwyn said the city of Charlottesville could take the statues down because a 1997 law protecting war memorials did not apply retroactively to statues erected before the law was passed. “In the present case, the statues were erected long before there was a statute which both authorized a city’s erection of a war memorial or monument and regulated the disturbance of or interference
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Coke and Baseball? 29 replies
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There are no gentlemen of the caliber of Lee or Jackson anywhere near the degenerate New Dominion. Swap them out for a bLACK trans-man or someone else more reflective of modern American values.