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Pentagon is reinstalling portrait of Confederate General Robert E. Lee with slave (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 1 week ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/news@lemmy.world

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A portrait of Confederate general Robert E Lee that includes a slave guiding his horse is set to be reinstated in the Pentagon.

The 20-foot-tall painting, which was on display at the United States Military Academy for 70 years, will be hung in the West Point library under President Trump’s instruction despite a congressionally mandated commission that ordered its removal back in 2020.

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Well yes but actually no. There is this silly little thing called Article II Section 3:

He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.

Meaning it is up to the president of the united states of America to see laws be faithfully executed or not, and in this case he chose not and gave the order to do this. This would be a huge fucking deal, and a blatant misinterpretation of the laws, if half the courts in the land weren't pro-fascism and already agreed he could do this when he froze medicaid funding earlier this year.