“[The Virginia Supreme Court] held that the original law never applied to the statues, so Charlottesville always had the ability to take them down,” said Rich Schragger, a UVA law professor. “Because the language of the revised statute, which allows local governments to remove, tracks the language of the old statute in important ways, the city could take the position that the new statute’s procedural requirements do not apply to the statues and therefore the city can act immediately to remove them.” Given that a previous council’s vote to remove monuments lead to losing a lawsuit and an injunc...