robert e. lee
The city has removed more than a dozen other pieces of Confederate statuary on city land since the death of George Floyd in 2020.
"Who is going to tell her?" asked one critic after Arizona Republican Wendy Rogers said she liked Robert E. Lee but didn't like "traitors who hate America."
The removal of the Confederate monument in Charlottesville, Virginia, follows years of contention, community anguish and litigation.
The development comes more than five years after a 2016 removal push focused on the Lee statue.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Confederate flags at Stone Mountain Park will be moved from a busy walking trail and a new exhibit will acknowledge the site’s connection to the Ku Klux Klan.
Virginia’s highest court ruled Thursday that the city can take down two statues of Confederate generals, including one of Robert E. Lee.
A commission that voted for the removal has called for a monument of Black civil rights icon Barbara Johns to take its place.
“Had he won, we would be two countries,” state Sen. Jerry Newton said in response to the president's praise of Lee as a "great general."
The injunction was imposed right after the judge dismissed a different legal challenge attempting to stop the statue's removal from Monument Avenue in Richmond.
Trump was recorded talking to Sen. James Inhofe about keeping Lee's name at military sites, and The New York Times got the tape.