RICHMOND, Va. – A lawsuit seeking to prevent Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam from removing a 21-foot statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E.
Lee in Richmond is scheduled to go to trial Monday. The plaintiffs, a group of Richmond residents who live near the monument, filed suit after Northam ordered the removal of the statue in June amid the outcry and unrest caused by the death of George Floyd in police custody.
They argue that the Democratic governor does not have the authority to remove the statue erected in 1890 in this former capital of the Confederacy and that doing so would violate restrictive covenants in deeds that transferred the statue, its pedestal, and the land they sit on to the state.
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