A bill backed by neo-Confederates that aimed to protect historic monuments from removal was shot down in a narrow House vote Wednesday when a handful of Republicans voted no or abstained from voting.
With Georgia’s annual lawmaking session set to end late Thursday night, the bill is likely, but not certainly, dead for the year.
Hartwell Republican state Rep. Alan Powell presented Senate Bill 175 in the House as a way to protect Georgia’s historic monuments by granting legal standing to sue over alleged improper removal of a historic monument to “any interested person” regardless of whether they would actually be harmed by the removal of the monument.
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