Texas to defend law requiring 10 Commandments in classrooms
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A federal appeals court will hear arguments in lawsuits seeking to block Texas and Louisiana from requiring classroom displays of the Ten Commandments.
The Ten Commandments, long removed from schools, may only have a short time before returning to classrooms across Texas. Senate Bill 10, passed during the regular legislative session earlier this year, requires a 16-by-20 inch poster of a Protestant ...
A sculpture with the Ten Commandments is pictured on the Texas Capitol grounds on Thursday, June 26, 2025, in Austin. More legal battles are brewing over Texas’ requirement that schools display posters of the Ten Commandments, as a federal appeals court ...
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 new requirement. Texas is the third state where courts ...
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 precedent prohibiting the posting of the Ten ...
The Collier County Commission voted 4-1 to display the Ten Commandments alongside other historical documents in county buildings. The decision followed a heated debate, with opponents citing constitutional concerns about the separation of church and state ...