Virginia’s supreme court ruled Thursday that Charlottesville can remove two statues of Confederate generals, according to the Associated Press. The state’s top court overruled a lower court’s decision that sided with a group of residents who sued to prevent Charlottesville from taking down a statue of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. According to the AP, Charlottesville’s city council voted to remove both statues. RELATED: Virginia's Lee statue has been removed from the US Capitol Charlottesville was the sight of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in 2017, where white supremacists and neo-Nazis protested against removing a […]
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