RICHMOND, Va. – A judge on Thursday indefinitely extended an injunction preventing the Virginia governor from removing a historic statue of Confederate Gen.
Robert E. Lee from Richmond’s famed Monument Avenue.Richmond Circuit Court Judge Bradley Cavedo made the decision after hearing from attorneys for the state and for the plaintiff in a lawsuit against Gov Ralph Northam.
Earlier this month, Cavedo had issued a 10-day injunction barring Northam from taking down the bronze equestrian statue of the Confederate hero.Cavedo said the monument “is the property of the people of the Commonwealth” of Virginia, but said he would give the plaintiff, William C.