confederate

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Partisan GOP grousing and Trump’s witch-hunt claims notwithstanding, the Garland-led Justice Department can be expected to follow the facts and the law in reaching decisions about Trump and his confederates.

From Washington Post

“Over two years ago, Richmond was home to more confederate statues than any city in the United States,” Mayor Stoney said in a statement on Twitter after the statue was gone.

From New York Times

The younger Mr. Landrieu confronted the nation’s history of racism himself when he spearheaded the removal of four confederate monuments in New Orleans in 2017.

From New York Times

It is actually this Big Lie – promulgated by Trump and his confederates and now promoted by GOP candidates all over the country – that is the biggest single threat to democracy in the United States.

From Seattle Times

Warnock became Georgia’s first Black senator and the first Black Democratic senator from a former confederate state.

From Washington Post