Untrue. And many of the statements were reiterated in his testimony in the trial. As to the reason the State of Alabama had to have this monument in the judicial building.
It's still properly a state decision, lugsoul, whether or not you like it. I personally don't think they should have bothered with it, but they did, and it was well within their powers to have such a monument in the courthouse, and the feds stepped over the line of the 10th Amendment, just as SCOTUS did when it struck down that law against gays in Texas (I personally think the law was wrong, but, once again, the 10th should have overriden the person opinions of the SCOTUS judges).