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Chris Kenning
9:12 a.m. EDT June 6, 2016
... Attorneys Thomas McAdam and J. Andrew White said in a legal document that they intend to make a motion Monday before Judge Judith McDonald-Burkman to be relieved from representing Everett Corley a recently-defeated Republican Congressional candidate who joined the Sons of Confederate Veterans in the lawsuit that sought to halt the monuments removal ...
In a Facebook post, Corley insulted African-American University of Louisville professor Ricky Jones' heritage by calling him a damn dirty black b-----d, according to a May 27 article in Insider Louisville. The post has since been deleted, but was widely viewed ...
Counsel for the Plaintiff did not enter this case to pursue a racial agenda and cannot represent a Plaintiff who has chosen to inject race or bigotry into the issues of this matter and ask to be relieved as counsel for Mr. Corley due to these offensive and unwise remarks, the legal filing said ...
Other plaintiffs, including Kentuckys Sons of Confederate Veterans and activist Ed Springston, are still awaiting a written decision after McDonald-Burkman verbally dissolved a restraining order theyd won last month and denied the injunction theyd sought ...
http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2016/06/06/confederate-statue-lawyers-drop-client/85476442/
Soup-rise! Soup-rise! Soup-rise! Their neo-confederate client is a racist yahoo!
yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)MrScorpio
(73,626 posts)Pretty much says everything you need to know about the political shift of white supremacist ideology in this country.