Judge says removal of Confederate statue at Arlington can proceed
Source: Washington Post
A day after halting work to remove the Confederate memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, a federal judge in Virginia on Tuesday said he would allow the removal to proceed.
On Tuesday evening, Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. of the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia ruled against a request from a group called Defend Arlington that the memorial remain undisturbed.
In an opinion denying a preliminary injunction, Alston wrote that the “case essentially attempts to place this Court at the center of a great debate” between the Confederacy’s detractors and defenders. He found that the group that had sought to stop the removal, Defend Arlington, had not shown it was in the public interest to leave the memorial in place, nor had it shown that adjacent graves were being disturbed by the activity.
The ruling was the latest turn in a long effort to dispense with the divisive statue, which the Army had slated for removal this week.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/12/19/arlington-confederate-memorial-removal-ruling/
This was the judge who originally halted the removal.
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