Judge issues order keeping Confederate memorial at Arlington Cemetery for now

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Source: Associated Press via the Washington Post

Judge issues order keeping Confederate memorial at Arlington Cemetery for now

By Matthew Barakat * AP
December 18, 2023 at 3:04 p.m. EST



(Kevin Wolf/FR33460 AP)

FALLS CHURCH, Va. -- A federal judge on Monday issued a temporary restraining order barring removal of a memorial to Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery.

A group called Defend Arlington, affiliated with a group called Save Southern Heritage Florida, filed a lawsuit Sunday in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, seeking the restraining order. A hearing has been scheduled for Wednesday.

Work to remove the memorial had begun Monday before the restraining order was issued, but the memorial remains in place on cemetery grounds. ... A cemetery spokesperson said Monday that Arlington is complying with the restraining order, but referred all other questions to the Justice Department.

The cemetery had said on Friday that it expected to complete the removal this week. It said the removal was required by Congress, and that it was complying with environmental and historic-preservation regulations.

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Freelance photographer Kevin Wolf contributed to this report from Arlington.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2023/12/18/confederate-memorial-arlington-cemetery-restraining-order/c6c886d0-9dcc-11ee-9e0f-972979a6c22b_story.html

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Hat tip, Joe.My.God.

Trump Judge Halts Removal Of Confederate Memorial
December 18, 2023

https://www.joemygod.com/2023/12/trump-judge-halts-removal-of-confederate-memorial/

U.S. NEWS
Judge issues order keeping Confederate memorial at Arlington Cemetery for now
BY MATTHEW BARAKAT
Updated 2:49 PM EST, December 18, 2023

https://apnews.com/article/confederate-memorial-arlington-cemetery-restraining-order-65a00f0e3b49b22547059ee021ec3e82

[GreenWave]

1. Those who lose wars do not dictate terms.

[Girard442]

2. Merde.

[TwilightZone]

3. "Save Southern Heritage Florida"

"Proudly racist since 1821"

[Novara]

10. Gah, could they BE more obvious?

[GB_RN]

12. And How, Exactly...

In the wide, wide world of fucks does a group of fascist fucknuts in Flori-duh even have standing on this?

I know I’m a cardiac RN and that IANAL, but I just don’t see it. A national chapter? maybe. But not a bunch of local yokels hoping to curry favor with Gov. Rhonda Santis. 😁

[onenote]

19. The Florida group is only one of a number of plaintiffs

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.546980/gov.uscourts.vaed.546980.1.0.pdf


Moreover if a future republican administration ordered changes to the FDR or Martin Luther King Jr memorials or the extinguishing of the flame at JFK’s gravesite I don’t think that only residents of DC would have standing to challenge the decision.

[rpannier]

15. Go there and place a white flag on a pole with the statue

Honoring Southern Heritage

[KS Toronado]

21. Fantastic idea, every Confederate monument everywhere should have one

Remind people that they were LOSERS. There's a reason Germany/Italy/Japan don't allow
glorifying their past, we should follow their example.

[BlueKota]

25. Traitor to the USA

should be inscribed on every Confederate civil war monument as well.

[KS Toronado]

29. "DON'T FOLLOW US.....WE'RE LOSERS" would be nice.

Or how about "OUR COUP FAILED!"?

[BlueKota]

30. I like both those options

[BOSSHOG]

26. The bumper stickers throughout Mississippi 20+ years ago

HERITAGE, NOT HATE

Long before they decided trying to be almost polite.

[ZonkerHarris]

4. Anti-American judge who is a secret racist perhaps?

[Tanuki]

23. Judge Rossie Alston:

[ZonkerHarris]

24. did not see that coming

[Ray Bruns]

5. What is their standing in bringing the lawsuit?

[GB_RN]

13. That Was Exactly...

My question up above.

[onenote]

20. See post #19

[Griefbird]

6. Gee, l wonder

How it is that removal of this statue is unconstitutional. Does that mean that all of the statues that have been removed under this order of Congress have to be returned to their original places as well? Some are blobs of bronze.

[PSPS]

7. Judge Rossie Alston is a trump judge

[Pope on a Rope]

17. That cemetery is already compromised by Kissinger's burial there.

[melm00se]

8. The TRO appears to be in place

until Wednesday when a hearing has been scheduled. The TRO makes sense as the work had already started.

It should be noted that the judge's comments in the order

"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."

may indicate that he may not be the most patient of judges.

[atreides1]

11. Well

By saying "may take" he's giving them some leeway! If he had said...he would take appropriate sanctions, that would be a better indicator of how serious he was!

[melm00se]

22. He can't say

"will". If he had, that would have been grounds for appeal.

[Wonder Why]

9. Keep it there. Just bury it.

[rpannier]

14. That there is a monument there is ridiculous

I wonder if there is a Martin J. Monti monument there?
Gonna honor one group of traitors, why not another?

[Irish_Dem]

28. Maybe a little section for the worst Americans in US history.

Benedict Arnold
Joe McCarthy
Donald Trump
Richard Nixon
Lee Harvey Oswald

[Mysterian]

16. Those motherfuckers killed loyal American patriots

Fuck this phony "heritage" group which is nothing but the KKK without robes. The memorial will be removed.

[LittleGirl]

18. Oh ffs! This is getting ridiculous! nt

[Irish_Dem]

27. They committed treason to keep slavery.

Why do they deserve a statue on federal property?