The Alabama Supreme Court directed a judge to fine Birmingham $25,000 for putting plywood up around a confederate monument, ruling the city in violation of the 2017 Alabama Memorial Preservation Act.
“This ruling appears to be less about the rule of law and more about politics,” city spokesman Rick Journey said, per ABC News. “We are carefully reviewing the opinion to determine our next step, but clearly the citizens of Birmingham should have the final decision about what happens with monuments on Birmingham city grounds.”
Municipal officers erected a plywood box to obscure a 52-foot monument inscribed with the names of Confederate soldiers. With the decision, the Supreme Court has overturned a circuit judge’s ruling that the Memorial Preservation Act violates freedom of speech protections.
AL Supreme Court to Birmingham residents: “Keep your cotton picking hands off the Confederate idolatry.”
Ya think?
Fun Fact: Judges are elected in Alabama.
See MOORE, Roy
Because memorializing the buying, selling, and sexual abuse of fellow human beings is what the rule of law is all about.
So says the AL. Supreme Court.
Who’s free speech are we protecting here?
The white power structure in Alabama is fighting a rear-guard action. Ultimately, they are doomed.