Friday, February 15, 2019

Alabama Supreme Court stays Jefferson County ruling on Confederate monument law

Via Billy

Birmingham city workers covered the Confederate Monument in Linn Park in August 2017. It took the workers about 45 minutes to erect the 12x16 foot plywood enclosure around the base of the monument. (Joe Songer|jsonger@al.com)

The Alabama Supreme Court has granted the State of Alabama’s motion to stay last month’s Jefferson County Circuit Court judgment that declared the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017 unconstitutional, Attorney General Steve Marshall announced Friday.

Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Judge Michael Graffeo issued the order on Jan. 14 just before midnight. The order came over a year after the state sued the city for violating the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act-- a law to prohibit local governments from moving historical monuments on public property that have been in place for 40 years or more. The act also prohibits renaming buildings and streets with historical names that have been in place at least 40 years.

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