NEW ORLEANS – A court is expected to hear arguments on whether New Orleans should be able to remove four Confederate monuments.
The case will be heard Wednesday by a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
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The City Council voted in December 2015 to remove the monuments to Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and a statue honouring whites who tried to topple a biracial post-Civil War government in New Orleans.
Mayor Mitch Landrieu urged the monuments be removed after police said a white supremacist who posed with the Confederate battle flag for photos killed nine parishioners inside an African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, last year.
But the decision to remove the monuments has been sharply controversial and led to an immediate court fight.
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