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Several Groups File Briefs to Support Lee Statue Removal Fencing was put up around the Robert E. Lee statue on Richmond s Monument Avenue in January in preparation for its planned removal. (Photo: Crixell Matthews/VPM News) Richmond residents who are for and against the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue are gearing up for oral arguments at the Virginia Supreme Court as soon as this summer. Attorney General Mark Herring filed a brief Monday asking the court to dissolve a restraining order that’s preventing the state from taking down the monument. Several amicus briefs were submitted today in support of Herring’s request, including from a group of more than 50 Monument Avenue residents, calling themselves Circle Neighbors, who want the statue to come down. The group represents the vast majority of owners of properties that face the Lee Monument. ....
eye on the news Richmond’s Rage of the Woke The city’s iconoclastic frenzy, supported by local leaders, has left a historic avenue with stumps and graffiti. The Social Order Arts and Culture Beautifully landscaped with ample medians and harmoniously lined with gracious houses in various historic styles, Richmond, Virginia’s block-paved Monument Avenue and its several statuary tributes to Confederate leaders were once recognized as a triumph of American urban design. The residential frontages served admirably as a variegated frame for the monuments, creating a superb urban tableau that it made no sense to eradicate especially as the monuments lost ideological currency with the passage of time, as monuments often do. ....