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Judge to hear arguments in Richmond Lee statue lawsuit

by Associated Press
| August 18, 2020 6:27 AM

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A judge on Tuesday will weigh whether to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to prevent Virginia's Democratic governor from removing one of the most prominent tributes to the Confederacy, a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee along Richmond’s famed Monument Avenue.

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