A new round of debate over monuments honoring Confederate soldiers has been ignited by a controversial court order in Kentucky.
Ruling against Louisville Mayor Greg Fisher and the city government, Jefferson County Circuit judge Judith McDonald-Burke issued an injunction blocking any attempts to remove a Confederate memorial not too far from the University of Louisville.
The restraining order was filed by a number of persons and organizations, not least of which were Republican congressional candidate Everett Corley, political activist Ed Springston, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and Kentucky Division.
Echoing the concerns of many Southerners, the plaintiffs argue that removing the memorial and others like it will do nothing to make up for the past wrongs they supposedly represent and disrespect the men they are meant to honor.
But Mayor Fisher and his allies are not willing to let this go on. Instead, they intend to appeal the matter further, in the hope that a more sympathetic judge will not let them go ahead with their plan to move the memorial elsewhere.
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IT SHOULD NOT BE REMOVED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Leave the statues be.
Good
All this is history. It was put there for a reason. We should Rember and respect exactly what they stand for, liberty and freedom.
Hope this is true.
Democrats love to have one side of a story told theirs !!!!!
Confederate monuments are protected by federal law, passed many years ago. They are bonified veterans by that same law. The mayor does not have the authority to remove a federal monument, period.
If they remove those monuments…they can also take the ones down in Washington DC…I think it’s real pathetic of people wanting to remove some of this country’s heritage…these people are really sick in the head. Nothing should be removed from the south period and that includes the confederate flag. It’s our history…
Removing history and heritage is only going to fuel the resentment most people feel about the overreaching government
Tired of NAACP trying to take parts of our history down because it’s not their history we ought to take down some of there stuff