{"id":1857,"date":"2020-08-13T18:14:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T18:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2020-08-13T22:22:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T22:22:24","slug":"blm-government-responses-statue-removal-at-texas-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/blm-government-responses-statue-removal-at-texas-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"BLM Government Responses. Statue Removal at Texas Universities."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BLM led to a question to the Texas Attorney General about whether Texas A&amp;M had authority to remove a statue of Lawrence Sullivan Ross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So can A&amp;M remove the Sull Ross statue? If they get permission&#8230; Meaning, it&#8217;s complicated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why does A&amp;M need permission to remove the statue? Because Section 2166.5011 of the Government Code applies to the statue as it honors, in part, Ross&#8217; military service. Which means the university can get approval from the Legislature or it can by statute move the statue to another prominent location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is there a loophole that allows the Historical Commission or State Preservation Board to remove the statue? No, because A&amp;M is outside the jurisdiction of both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Texas Attorney General Opinion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/opinion-files\/opinion\/2020\/kp-0325.pdf\">KP-0325 (2020)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theeagle.com\/content\/tncms\/live\/\">Bryan Eagle | Paxton: Legislature must sign off on any relocation of Texas A&amp;M&#8217;s Ross statue<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLM led to a question to the Texas Attorney General about whether Texas A&amp;M had authority to remove a statue of Lawrence Sullivan Ross. So can A&amp;M remove the Sull Ross statue? If they get permission&#8230; Meaning, it&#8217;s complicated. Why does A&amp;M need permission to remove the statue? Because Section 2166.5011 of the Government Code [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}