The university spokesman Gary Susswein on the other hand has said that the school has agreed on waiting until a court is able to review the challenge while it expressed confidence that the Davis statue will eventually have its relocation to a museum.
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Breitbart Texas will continue to follow this on-going story about the future of this and other statues related to the confederacy on the UT-Austin campus.
The Davis statue has been a point of controversy for years on the Texas campus and the issue had been studied by previous school presidents.
The University of Texas said on Thursday it would move a statute of Confederate president Jefferson Davis from the campus to an educational exhibit in response to protests over the public display of symbols of the Confederacy.
“Given Jefferson Davis’ vehement support for the institution of slavery and white supremacy, we believe this statue is not in line with the university’s core values”, the petition said.
“We are confident we will move ahead with these plans”, [university spokesman Gary] Susswein said.
In the midst of opposition to Confederate symbols, seen by many people as representing racism and slavery, “Black Lives Matter” was painted on the bases of some of the statues and “Dump the Chumps” was painted on the base of the Davis statue. Under state law, he said, universities have the authority to relocate statues on their campuses.
Kirk Lyons, an attorney for the Texas division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, said the restraining order was necessary to consider the ramifications of removing the statues in light of the will left by George Littlefield, a UT-Austin donor who paid for the Confederate statues.
Sons of Confederate Veterans’ petition for temporary restraining order, injunction against the University of Texas [pdf].
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According to court filings, the group also said that the university decided to relocate the statues without approval from the Texas Legislature, State Preservation Board or the Texas Historical Commission. “If they don’t have a towel, I can send them a specially designed one”. “James Stephen Hogg, Albert Sidney Johnston, and John Reagan had deep ties to Texas”, UT President Gregory Fenves wrote in a letter addressed to the UT community.
