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A federal lawsuit was filed Wednesday challenging the continued existence of a Confederate monument on the lawn of the Talbot County courthouse as unconstitutional and illegal.
Filed on behalf of the Maryland Office of the Public Defender, assistant public defender for Talbot County Kisha Petticolas, the Talbot County Branch of the NAACP and branch president Richard Potter, the complaint demands the Talbot Boys statue be immediately and permanently removed and that a federal court ban its display on county property. The so-called Talbot Boys statue an homage to traitors of the United States and to the state of Maryland, who fought to sustain the subjugation of Black people and to tear apart the Union cannot remain on government property consistent with the core promise of the Fourteenth Amendment to all Americans: equality under the law, the lawsuit states.
Maryland activists stepped up their efforts Wednesday to have removed what’s believed to be the only Confederate statue still standing on public grounds in the state, filing a federal lawsuit arguing that the memorial on the lawn of an Eastern Shore courthouse is unconstitutional.
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A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday seeks the removal of a monument to Confederate solders that has been situated for more than a century on the lawn of the Talbot County courthouse in Easton, Maryland.
Filed in Baltimore federal court, the lawsuit targets the so-called “Talbot Boys” memorial, a 13-foot-tall monument consisting of a copper statue of young Confederate troops on top of a granite pedestal.
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EASTON, Md.- Some groups are now filing a lawsuit demanding the Talbot Boys monument be removed.
The groups which include the Talbot County Branch of the NAACP are filing suit in federal district court.
They said they are asking the court to rule that the statue is glorifying the confederacy at the courthouse and is both unconstitutional and illegal under federal law and the laws of the state.
The move for a lawsuit marks the latest chapter in efforts to get the monument removed, which some say promotes a legacy of racism and is a symbol of white supremacy.