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Horns honking, flag waving in Richmond at Lee Circle after Chauvin's guilty verdicts RICHMOND —The Virginia Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in two cases aimed at barring the removal of Richmond’s Robert E. Lee monument, the last Confederate memorial remaining on Monument Avenue in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Last June, Gov. Ralph Northam ordered the monument moved from state property at North Allen and Monument avenues. The General Assembly appropriated money to do so and in a budget amendment repealed the 1889 law that accepted the deed for the land and agreed ...

BY ERIC KOLENICH Richmond Times-Dispatch With Lee monument case tied up in court, people who transformed 'MDP Circle' are asking: What's the fence really for? RICHMOND — More than 50 homeowners who live near the Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue said they want the statue taken down immediately in a proposed amicus brief filed for the two cases that will determine the statue's fate. It's been more than 10 months since Gov. Ralph Northam ordered the statue's removal, but two lawsuits are vying to keep it up. A Richmond judge struck down both suits, but the plaintiffs a...