I don't know about the legal arguments but:
1. The monument is already political, and its hard to see how it can ever rise above its political origin.
2. Even if it is "designed to unite our nation," which I doubt, it's obviously not uniting us, and it's hard to see how it ever could.
3. It's not "beautiful and fitting" to me and to a lot of us Americans, and it shouldn't be built until there is far more consensus and desire for this immense thing in such a conspicuous and hallowed place.
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