Judge Blocks Arkansas Law Requiring Ten Commandments in Every Classroom

A federal judge has placed a permanent injunction on a law in Arkansas that requires the display of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom and library, ruling that the statute violates Supreme Court precedent and the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. The ruling does not affect the entirety of the state, but rather six specific school districts where the children of seven…
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Judge Blocks Texas Law Forcing Ten Commandments Displays in Schools

On Tuesday, a federal judge based in Texas ruled that a state law requiring public independent school districts (ISDs) to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom was likely unconstitutional. In his order, which was narrowly defined to affect only the districts in question, Judge Orlando Garcia of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas noted that the families suing…
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