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Confederate Memorial Removal to Proceed "A day after halting work to remove the Confederate memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, a federal judge in Virginia on Tuesday said he would allow the removal to proceed. On Tuesday evening, Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. of the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia ruled
A Virginia-based federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the Defense Department's removal of a Confederate statue at the Arlington National Cemetery may proceed despite protests from two groups trying to prevent it.
The removal of the Confederate Memorial at the Arlington National Cemetery may proceed, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, after finding that groups who tried to halt it failed to prove that keeping the monument was in the public’s best interest.