We know where this is going and, I suspect, so does Spanberger. She is virtue-signaling to the woke and Black Lives Matter mob, and after a drawn out and expensive series of court battles, the law will be declared void and unconstitutional, allowing Democrats and the Trump Deranged to call the Supreme Court majority racist while giving Justice Katangi Brown-Jackson a shot at writing her most legally ignorant dissent yet.
This is a party that doesn’t like free speech, and views any dissenting opinion as dangerous. How else would you explain this law?
The law’s obvious target is the United Daughters of the Confederacy, founded in 1894 for descendants of Confederates. The organization’s mission is to honor the members’ ancestors through education, programs, working with homeless shelters, food banks and other civic groups. That is down the middle of the metaphorical alley for a non-profit organization anywhere.
Democratic Delegate Alex Askew sponsored the bill, which he called an important step toward making state law align with modern values. It doesn’t make state law align with “modern values,” it dictates that Virginian citizens act in lock-step with progressive values. The Daughters of the Confederacy’s building and the property it is on is valued at about $4.7 million, which according to the city’s rate would make the annual property tax over $57,000. The building sustained millions of dollars in damage when Black Lives Matter rioters set it on fire during the George Floyd Freakout.
Black Lives Matters’ non-profit status is secure, of course. The organization is a scam, but it’s a good progressive scam.
“Governor Spanberger’s signing of this bill is a proud moment and an important step forward for Virginia,” Askew said in a statement. Let me correct that a bit: It’s a disgrace.
Also a disgrace is the Times “news story” by Anna Venarchik. She leaves out the rather germane fact that the law is strait-up viewpoint discrimination, violating both the Due Process Claus of the Constitution and the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights. The rest of the article is teeming with Axis bias. The rioters who burned the The Daughters of the Confederacy’s building are called “demonstrators.” The Trump Administration is described as “aggressively moving to restore some Confederate symbols that were taken down in recent years.” No, the Trump Administration has correctly and ethically opposed the Left’s commitment to historical air-brushing, which, if left to take its natural course, would result in the “cancelling” of Washington, Jefferson, Madison and other Founders.
Remembering and honoring Robert E. Lee is not endorsing the Confederacy, but acknowledging an important, complex and influential American whose life and achievements convey many lessons. “Aggressively moving to restore some Confederate symbols that were taken down in recent years” is textbook deceit of the sort that the biased news media has mastered, literally true but deliberately misleading.
Tomorrow I will be offering my services as an ethicist gratis to The Daughters of the Confederacy.
Ethics Alarms 
One of my favorite historical ironies is that the capture of John Brown, an actual insurrectionist supported and assisted by foreign agents, was carried out by one Colonel Robert E. Lee, assisted by a Lieutenant J.E.B. Stuart.
Jeb’s name has been stripped from a High School, and Lee’s from VA’s longest street.
Speaking of obviously unconstitutional laws:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-dems-ripped-bill-dubbed-stop-nick-shirley-act-could-penalize-independent-journalists
-Jut
Justice Jackson will probably say something of approximate substance in defense of this law like, “Just to be clear, I am going to circle back and say to be completely frank, no one knows what will happen now.”
The CIA lady was having a good day Monday. She signed a bill “that adds the state to the National Popular Vote Compact, an agreement among states to award their presidential electoral votes to the nationwide popular vote winner.”
I hope the states doing this come to regret it. If so, I will cackle like a mad woman.
It seems to me that if you are going to erase history you have to change the name of the state or at least the name of the capital given that Richmond was the capital of the confedracy.
To believe that some poor white farmer conscripted into service to fight for the institution of slavery and not fighting to protect their homeland, many of whom died or lost limbs being patriotic to their cause, is about as superficial understanding of that period as you can get.
I believe that given that we are being prepared for all of US history when the Left assumes complete dominance over a populace that lacks the capacity to think for itself. When that happens we will all be saying “ yes massa” and think nothing of it.
Hey Jack, Its a day early for this, but on the flip side, there is at least one lawmaker who calls out against making laws they know they will loose in court and waste time doing so.
Quote: “You cannot vote yes for a law that controls local, county, state, and federal,” she said during the session. “Why do we keep passing laws that are gonna end up in court?”
Article: https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/new-jersey-lawmaker-loses-it-on-democrats-stop-passing-unenforceable-laws-against-the-federal-government/
Ethics Hero.
Looking at the (now closed) comments, it seems very few of those have much of a clue as to what makes this law likely to be struck down if challenged. It’s all just “Confederates bad!”, so rights/laws/protections for anything associated with them don’t apply.