The Latest: Virginia gov bars demonstrations at Lee statue

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 4:25 pm, Friday, August 18, 2017

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The Latest on developments related to a violent white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia (all times local):

5:15 p.m.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has signed an executive order temporarily banning any public demonstrations at a monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond.

McAuliffe signed the order Friday, saying it was necessary after a deadly white nationalist rally over a Lee statue in Charlottesville.
 
The Lee monument in Richmond is in the middle of a traffic circle on Monument Avenue, an iconic boulevard with several other Confederate statues. McAuliffe said allowing any large demonstration there would "create a safety hazard in the current circumstances." The city was once the capital of the Confederacy.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/The-Latest-New-Confederate-monument-slated-for-11933864.php

[Va Lefty]

1. I'm not a lawyer but don't think this stands up in court.

But short term not a bad idea

[Tumbulu]

2. I could care less, let all these idiotic demonstration be banned and let them

use their money fighting it up to the Supreme Court. Just stall the whole nightmare. Let the rest of us get some sleep.