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H.K. Edgerton rallies with members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in April 2021 at an event in Covington held to raise money for the legal battle to protect the Confederate monument on the Square.

ATLANTA — A Civil War heritage preservation group has the right to sue Henry and Newton counties over the removal or planned removal of Confederate monuments, a lawyer for the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) told the Georgia Supreme Court Thursday.

Legislation the General Assembly passed in 2019 authorized “any person, group or legal entity” to challenge any acts in violation of the law, which prohibited the desecration or removal of historic monuments from public property.

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