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LINK Charlottesville can remove Confederate statues, Virginia Supreme Court rules

White supremacist and neo-Nazi organizers of the August 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville said they went to the city to defend the statue of Robert E. Lee.

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia's highest court ruled Thursday that the city of Charlottesville can take down two statues of Confederate generals, including one of Robert E. Lee that became the focus of a deadly white nationalist rally in 2017.

The state Supreme Court overturned a Circuit Court decision in favor of a group of residents who sued to block the city from taking down the Lee statue and a nearby monument to fellow Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. Charlottesville’s city council voted to remove both.

snytiger6 9 Apr 1
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Some idiots are going to be upset. Stay tuned.

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Those savage animals took it to the Va Supreme Court? Hopefully unanimous. That Circuit Court Judge should be impeached.

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