Posted on 04/13/2020 4:00:55 PM PDT by ml/nj
Gov. Ralph Northam, D-Va., signed a bill Saturday allowing individual localities to remove, relocate or contextualize Confederate statues and monuments within their communities. Localities can begin using these powers starting July 1.
In 2016, first-year College student Zyahna Bryant — then a student at Charlottesville High School — petitioned Charlottesville City Council to remove the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and to rename Lee Park in Downtown Charlottesville. The following year, Charlottesville City Council voted to remove two statues — one of Robert E. Lee and one of Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson — both Confederate generals.
The decision was quickly met with a lawsuit, which resulted in the Sept. 2019 ruling from Charlottesville Circuit Court Judge Richard E. Moore that the removal of Confederate monuments violated the Dillon Rule — an established doctrine that restricts the power of localities, only allowing them to have the powers specifically granted from the state government.
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ML/NJ
DUmocrats white-washing their history of SLAVERY, SEDITION, SOCIALISM, and SURRENDER.
Coon Man is moving fast.
Because ya know corona virus
Can they remove a Governor who wore black face?
Do localities have the right to remove MLK tributes as well?
They no longer need to make actual laws to do things like this.
As this current plannedemic debacle has shown, the peasantry will accept any draconian steps that their rulers decree, with little complaint and no actual resistance.
Glad to see this worthless POS can keep his priorities straight during the crises.
Nimrata “Nikki Haley” Randhawa approved?
Virginia withdraws from history!
Lady Virginia: Were you aware of this?
ML/NJ
Progressives constantly rewriting history
Be sure to thank Nikki Haley for getting this ball rolling.
Can they remove or contextualize the so called pride flag too?
I am OK with this as long as they tear down the statues of all Democrats from throughout all history.
5,700 Virginia Coronavirus cases
149 Virginians dead
300,000 jobs lost in Virginia in three weeks
Governor Blackface Northam’s response? Put a few dozen of his people to work at Winston Smith’s job from “1984” - erasing history. Democrats are consistent; they are pure evil but predictably evil.
Governor Jolson pulls new crap every day.
MORE DAMAGE TODAY!
ML/NJ
“DUmocrats white-washing their history..”
They aren’t “DUmocrats”...they are communists besmirching American history.
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