Posted on 12/18/2023 11:34:36 AM PST by NorthMountain
A Trump-appointed federal judge has temporarily halted removal proceedings for the Confederate memorial at Arlington National Cemetery that began Monday, the Associated Press reported.
Defend Arlington filed a lawsuit in a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, on Sunday for a temporary restraining order, the AP reported. Work had already begun to remove the bronze elements of the memorial in accordance with recommendations in the Congressionally-mandated Naming Commission’s final report to scrub Department of Defense (DOD) assets of any symbolism that could be seen to honor the Confederacy.
A hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, according to the AP. The memorial has not been dismantled.
“Safety fencing was installed around the Memorial yesterday, Dec. 17 and the deliberate deconstruction process is currently underway,” cemetery spokesperson Rebecca Wardwell told the Daily Caller News Foundation earlier on Monday.
The Army previously said it anticipated the removal process to take place over four days.
Defend Arlington sued the Army and the Department of Defense (DOD) in a district court in February to halt the removal. The district judge dismissed the case on Dec. 12. (RELATED: Former Senator Makes Plea To Save Arlington Cemetery’s Confederate Monument)
The cemetery claims removing the memorial is required by Congress and that doing so will comply with environmental regulations and leave the 400 Confederate graves encircling the monument undisturbed, according to the AP. However, Defend Arlington’s lawsuit argues the Army unlawfully bypassed certain regulations.
“The removal will desecrate, damage, and likely destroy the Memorial longstanding at ANC as a grave marker and impede the Memorial’s eligibility for listing on the National Register of Historic Places,” the lawsuit states, according to the AP.
A Department of Defense spokesperson referred the DCNF to Arlington National Cemetery. The cemetery did not immediately respond to a renewed request for comment.
U.S. District Judge Rossie Alston, who issued the restraining order, said the parties should be prepared to discuss Defend Arlington’s prior, dismissed case at the court date, saying it could affect his decision whether or not to extend the stay beyond Wednesday, the AP reported.
Alston wrote that he “takes very seriously the representations of officers of the Court and should the representations in this case be untrue or exaggerated the Court may take appropriate sanctions,” AP reported.
The new lawsuit differs from the previous one in that the plaintiffs now have concrete evidence the removal efforts are disturbing the graves, David McCallister, a spokesperson for the advocacy group Save Southern Heritage Florida, told the AP.
“The Memorial represents a symbol of reconciliation aimed at healing a country divided during a brutal sectional war and reconstruction,” Defend Arlington wrote in the prior lawsuit.
Biden may be Obama’s puppet, but Obama is himself somebody’s puppet.
A glimer of good news.
Number one. It’s not a “Confederate memorial. Second, the idiots who ordered the removal like it better when they can wallow around in the mud over it whilst hurling untrue accusations at all those opposed to their evil doings.
Sore winners fighting the Civil War again.
This (the removal) should never happen in a FREE country. F BLM and FJB.
Yes they don’t hide their communism one bit.
I thought this monument was too commemorate both Confederate and Union soldiers equally. Why do they say “Confederate” only?
It is a monument to reconciliation between the north and the south, something of immense importance after the civil war. War. Clearly today there are those who prefer division.
This is a monument to the Confederate dead.
A century ago the federal government and the military were making concessions to the South in order to promote national reconciliation. Now, they’re making concessions to what they believe are African-American sensibilities in the name of what they believe to be national reconciliation. It’s not going to work, but there may be more continuity between what government was doing then and what it’s doing now than appears to many people.
Leftists lie.
All the time.
About everything.
Sharks bite.
Skunks stink.
Leftists lie.
It's their nature; it's what they do.
Johnson’s Island, a causeway at Marblehead, OH (Lake Erie) was used as a prison camp for Confederate Officers during the war. There were several hundred prisoners held there and all died, mostly of typhoid fever, starvation and the brutal weather elements of Lake Erie. Through the years, families of the dead tried at their own expense to bring their remains back to their southern homes. They were denied. There is a memorial statue along with some tombstones which was erected by Daughters of the Confederacy . I suppose it will also be dismantled. It is a sad haunting place. It has been said these men were treated like animals
People in "the south" and people in "the north" WANTED reconciliation.
The present "DIE, woke, cancel culture" crowd don't want reconciliation. They want to kill Whitey and take his stuff.
Sadly it is happening all over the US. The Cherokees recently removed the memorial honoring Stand Watie, the last Confederate General to lay down arms. The Stand Watie Memorial Highway in now just Hwy 59 and the Stand Watie Memorial Bridge is now the Honey Creek Bridge.
I went by his grave not long ago and so far they have not tried to dig him up.
Our local County Seat Confederate Statue has been damaged and removed.
We hear a lot about how wretched Andersonville was, and rightly so. We don’t hear much about how the Union POW camps were every bit as wretched. Real history is always more complex than narrative.
Yes, they are still trying to con black people into voting for them so that they can keep power and exploit the corruption in our government for their own enrichment, same as it was 160 years ago.
But a lot of black people are waking up and realizing that meaningless gestures do not improve their lives, and certainly the hordes this corrupt government is letting stream through the borders absolutely do not improve their lives.
A lot of people may not be aware of this, but Hispanics and Black people do not mix well. In California, Hispanic gangs are purging neighborhoods of black people by threats, intimidation and finally actual violence.
It is well known that when the Hispanics move in, blacks tend to be forced out, but nobody in California dare object to it because the Hispanic caucus is so powerful there.
But everyone knows about it.
The (Pelosi) House passed a resolution Tuesday to expel Confederate statues from the US Capitol and replace its bust of Roger B. Taney, the chief justice who wrote the Dred Scott decision, with one honoring Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court justice.
The vote was 285 to 120. Sixty-seven Republicans voted with 218 Democrats in support of the bill.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/29/politics/house-vote-confederate-statues/index.html
How often does the media lead off their story on a court order by identifying who appointed the decision-making judge?
“...historic-preservation regulations...”????????
How is removing an historic monument considered preservation?????
Whether you like it or not doesn’t remove it’s historical significance....
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