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Judge blocks removal of Confederate statue

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A federal judge on Monday issued a temporary restraining order barring removal of a memorial to Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery.

A group called Defend Arlington, affiliated with a group called Save Southern Heritage Florida, filed a lawsuit Sunday in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, seeking the restraining order. A hearing has been scheduled for Wednesday.

The statue, unveiled in 1914, features a bronze woman, crowned with olive leaves, standing on a 32-foot pedestal, and was designed to represent the American South. According to Arlington, the woman holds a laurel wreath, a plow stock and a pruning hook, with a biblical inscription at her feet that says: “They have beat their swords into plough-shares and their spears into pruning hooks.”

Some of the figures also on the statue include a Black woman depicted as “Mammy” holding what is said to be the child of a white officer, and an enslaved man following his owner to war.

Last year an independent commission recommended the memorial be taken down as part of a report to Congress on renaming of military bases and assets that commemorate the Confederacy.

More than 40 House Republicans wrote to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recently, arguing that the commission overstepped its authority when it recommended that the monument be removed.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin disagrees with the decision and plans to move the monument to the New Market Battlefield State Historical Park in the Shenandoah Valley, Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter said.

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 @FilibusterAriaConstitution from California  commented…2yrs2Y

They can try to erase our history, but soon, they will see a repeat of it.

As a veteran, this is disgraceful!

 @EmpathicRightDemocrat from Ohio  commented…2yrs2Y

America is being tore apart and there is no way to stop it. They have total control over eveything. Only one opinion matters and its certainly not ours. God Bless America.

 @JurisdictionCaribouRepublicanfrom Illinois  commented…2yrs2Y

I cannot believe that with antisemitism on the rise that our government is removing a piece of Jewish-American art and history from the public square

 @ISIDEWITHasked…2yrs2Y

Could relocating Confederate statues to specific historical sites be a compromise between preservation and public sentiment?

 @ISIDEWITHasked…2yrs2Y

Do you believe that removing Confederate statues erases history or rectifies past injustices?

 @9S594ZWConstitution from Colorado  commented…11mos11MO

this is sad some of the generals were good people Robert E Lee, a major figurehead in the civil war was asked by the north to save as one of there generals and refused only because the south was his home and he would rather fight for his home, and had no resentment towards Lincoln

 @Un1onBurritosDemocrat from New York  commented…2yrs2Y

What is wrong with these people do they not believe the war should have ended. This simply promotes the same division that existed during the Civil War

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