The National Park Service has announced it will restore and reinstall a Confederate statue in the District’s Judiciary Square neighborhood.

The statue of the Confederate General and Freemason Leader Albert Pike was brought down and burned in June 2020 by demonstrators amid protests in D.C. over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

In a news release, the park service said the decision to both repair and bring the statue out of storage comes as part of executive orders to “beautify the nation’s capital and reinstate pre-existing statues.”

The agency specified it was the result of both the “Executive Order on Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful” and the “Executive Order on Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”

The goal of bringing the Pike statue back, acc

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