A Texas statute mandating the posting of the Ten Commandments in every classroom in the state had been blocked by a federal district court and by a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals. But those ...

Attorneys for the families said the law "violates longstanding U.S. Supreme Court precedent and the U.S. Constitution’s First ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is seeking records from 29 school districts on compliance with the state's Ten Commandments law.

The Ten Commandments in the foreground of the Texas Capitol, seen on June 30, 2025. Credit: Texas Tribune / Ronaldo Bolaños Texas can enforce a state law requiring public schools to display posters of ...

A federal appeals court on April 21 narrowly upheld a Texas law requiring public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments. In a 9-8 ruling, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed ...

Controversy over the commandments is not new. In more than a dozen early cases, courts generally upheld laws and policies mandating their recitation in schools. These enactments survived because the ...

The Tennessee House soon will have to make a choice. Do members want to make it mandatory that public school districts allow individual schools to display the Ten Commandments or leave it to the ...

A state law mandating the display of the Ten Commandments in every classroom has already divided Texas schools. Now a federal appeals court will decide its constitutionality. On Tuesday, the 17 active ...

Suppose a state mandated that signs be posted in every public school classroom declaring “Jesus is Lord.” Wouldn’t that violate the First Amendment’s ban on establishments of religion? Until last ...