The prospect of a federal boycott, even if informal, would ratchet up pressure on the state already being shunned by the American Bar Association, the NAACP and other groups to pull down the slave-era relic.
When Attorneys Object On Moral Grounds...
If South Carolina doesn't do something about its flag problem,
the Department of Justice might. No legal action is being
considered to remove the Confederate flag from the state's
capitol dome (there are probably no grounds), but the department
may condone objections by some of its lawyers to attending
advanced training courses at DOJ's sparkling new National
Advocacy Center in Columbia.