LinkLinks DCist: Protesters Topple, Burn Statue of Confederate General Albert Pike In Judiciary Square By Editor On Jun 20, 2020 Last updated Jun 20, 2020 41 Share For a period in the early 1990s and again in the wake of white supremacist violence in Charlottesvile in 2017, activists and city officials alike called for the removal of a statue of a Confederate general that stands in Judiciary Square. Those demands, which surfaced again in recent weeks, have been mired in federal bureaucracy—requiring Congressional approval to remove a monument that lawmakers authorized in 1898. 41 Share FacebookTwitterReddItWhatsAppEmailPrint
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