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Moving Confederate Monuments In North Carolina Not Easy

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The North Carolina Historical Commission will soon decide whether Gov. Roy Cooper can relocate three Confederate monuments from outside the state Capitol. This effort is the first full test of a 2015 state law that was expressly designed to make moving these monuments nearly impossible.

But as James Morrison (@JCMorrisn) from member station WUNC reports, that 2015 law has some wiggle room for legal interpretation.

This segment aired on May 28, 2018.

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