The state Supreme Court came down on the side of heritage and history.

The state Supreme Court came down on the side of heritage and history. Last week they ruled legal

Last week they ruled legal a state law against moving a Confederate monument or changing the historical name of a street or building without lawmakers’ permission.

The court also struck down a requirement that two-thirds of the General Assembly must approve a move or name change.

A simple majority of both houses will do.

The ruling means colleges and local governments cannot change street and building names or remove statues honoring Civil War soldiers or generals on their own.

Some other southern states took them down after protests about the killing of African American George Floyd.

The law passed in 2000 in a compromise with then Gov. Jim Hodges to remove the Confederate flag from atop the Statehouse.

In 2015, lawmakers removed it from in front of the Statehouse after 9 church members were murdered at a Charleston church by White Knoll High School dropout Dylann Roof.

The widow of state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, pastor of Emanuel AME church in Charleston who died in the massacre, has sued lawmakers over the Heritage Act.

Days after the Confederate flag was removed in 2015, lawmakers vowed not to approve removing any other statues or renaming buildings under the Heritage Act.

The justices said the compromise “accomplished one of the greatest achievements in the political history of South Carolina — the removal of the Confederate flag from the dome of our Capitol, the seat of government for all our people.”