ATLANTA – The state is pushing back against a series of lawsuits filed by the Georgia chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
The group is suing the state over the relocation of Confederate flags at Stone Mountain Park and the park’s planned “truth-telling” exhibit about the Civil War, slavery, segregation and the Ku Klux Klan.
Attorney General Chris Carr’s office has moved to dismiss the Sons of Confederate Veterans’ three lawsuits, arguing the group does not have legal grounds to sue and that the state is protected by sovereign immunity – a legal doctrine that normally shields governments from lawsuits…