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Judge orders 10-day delay after Virginia governor says Confederate monument to Robert E. Lee must come down
A Virginia judge has ordered a 10 day halt to Governor Ralph Northam’s plan to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee statue on Richmond’s historic Monument Avenue. Northam announced on June 4 that the monument would come down, after days of heated protests rocked the city. Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War, and is often at the epicenter of heated national debates about the war’s losing side. […]