Effort to restore Confederate markers in Little Rock is a legal lost cause, city attorney indicates
May 20, 202110:22 am
EX POST FACTO REPOST? Can a new law be invoked to restore a long-gone Confederate statue? The city attorney doesn’t think so.
Joey McCutchen, the Fort Smith lawyer who’s a tireless crusader for the Lost Cause, got another headline in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette this morning by threatening to sue over the city’s removal of a
Confederate statue and other markers venerating Confederate traitors from
MacArthur Park.
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My first thought: How could McCutchen invoke a new state law that prohibits the removal of historic monuments without review by a state commission since these actions were taken almost a year ago?