Judge grants restraining order preventing movement of Confederate monument

[TexasTowelie]

Daviess Circuit Judge Lisa Payne Jones has ordered the Confederate monument not be moved from the Daviess County Courthouse for now.

Jones granted a request by the Kentucky Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy to prohibit Daviess Fiscal Court from moving the statue from the courthouse lawn.

The ownership of the 121-year-old statue is in dispute between Fiscal Court and the Kentucky UDC. Fiscal Court would like to move the statue off the courthouse lawn, and county Judge-Executive Al Mattingly previously said he was in discussions with an undisclosed party about taking it.

The UDC claims they have owned the statue since 1970 when the John C. Breckenridge Chapter 306 UDC dissolved. The UDC argues the county merely gave permission for the statue to be placed on the courthouse lawn in 1900.

Read more: https://www.messenger-inquirer.com/news/judge-grants-restraining-order-preventing-movement-of-confederate-monument/article_46ddcf3a-aec9-52f5-9059-ba6c03b408ba.html
(Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer)

[fwvinson]

1. I haven't heard one thing about

the biggest Jeff Davis monument, the Jefferson Davis Monument in Fairview, KY.(That is where J. Davis was born). That thing is a monster.

[Fullduplexxx]

2. Lisa P. Jones is a district court judge for the 6th District Court, which presides over Daviess Coun

Lisa P. Jones is a district court judge for the 6th District Court, which presides over Daviess County in Kentucky.[1] She was re-elected without opposition in 2010 and 2014, and her four-year term expired on January 6, 2019.[2][3][4][5]