Georgia lawsuit filed over adding civil rights, KKK history to world’s largest Confederate monument

State Senator re-files bill to make removing Confederate monuments prohibitively expensive

Since 2017, any county or municipality looking to rid itself of Confederate memorials on public property has had to pay a price—the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act levies a $25,000 fine on such removals. But State Sen. Gerald Allen, R-Tuscaloosa, has for years been pitching a bill that would change the fine from a relatively small one-time hit to a city’s budget to a constant drain on taxpayer money. Allen’s proposed amendment to the the act, …

Georgia lawsuit filed over adding civil rights, KKK history to world’s largest Confederate monument

The Georgia Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans filed a lawsuit alleging the Stone Mountain Memorial Association is violating a state law requiring the association to maintain the park as an “appropriate and suitable memorial for the Confederacy.”The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in DeKalb Superior Court, targets a planned “truth-telling” museum at the park.