The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit just made it harder for Confederate heritage groups to stop the removal of monuments from public venues.

On Monday, the Eleventh Circuit stripped Southern heritage groups and sympathizers of the right to sue in federal court over the relocation of a 26-foot-tall Confederate memorial in Lakeland, Florida. The memorial was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1908.

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