A state law mandating the display of the Ten Commandments in every classroom has already divided Texas schools. Now a federal ...

Stone tablets depicting the Ten Commandments are shown outside the Supreme Court in Washington June 27, 2005, placed there during a vigil by a religious group. In Louisiana, Public school classrooms ...

In June, Texas legislators passed a bill requiring the Ten Commandments be posted in every public school classroom across the state. Senate Bill 10 went into effect on Sept. 1 and the Victoria ...

Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression.

All three laws have been at least partially blocked – most recently Texas’ law – after federal trial court rulings. But the ongoing cases seem aimed at overturning a 45-year-old U.S. Supreme Court ...

Indiana already mandates public schools teach every moral value promoted by the Ten Commandments. That includes ...

Debbie Leimback displays one of the hundreds of Ten Commandments posters she was preparing to deliver to local public schools in New Braunfels, Texas, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. (Credit: Eric Gay/AP.) ...

Texas cannot require public schools in Houston, Austin and other select districts to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, a judge said Wednesday in a temporary ruling against the state’s ...

The polarizing court battle over Texas’ Ten Commandments display law has reignited the debate over religion in public schools. Attorney General Ken Paxton, whose office is defending the requirement, ...

Last week, I asked what you think about the new Texas law requiring classrooms in public schools to display the Ten Commandments. The vast majority of you are firmly opposed. Here, lightly edited, are ...

Gov. Mike Braun and Attorney General Todd Rokita announced they are pushing to place a monument with the Ten Commandments and the Bill of Rights at the Indiana Statehouse — a move that reignites a ...