The plaintiffs argue the mandate violates the First Amendment’s protections for religious freedom and the separation of ...

Similar laws are facing legal scrutiny in other states. Louisiana’s 2024 Ten Commandments law was blocked by a federal judge, with an appeal pending. Arkansas passed a comparable law in 2025.

A new poll finds few Americans support allowing religious schools to become tax-funded public charter schools.

A granite Ten Commandments monument stands on the ground of the Texas Capitol, Thursday, May 29, 2025, in Austin, Texas. (Photo: Eric Gay, Associated Press) In states like Mississippi and Alabama ...

In 2005, Abbott, who was state attorney general at the time, successfully argued before the Supreme Court that Texas could keep a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of its Capitol.

In 2005, Abbott, who was state attorney general at the time, successfully argued before the Supreme Court that Texas could keep a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of its Capitol.

391223 04: A 42-year-old Ten Commandments sculpture is on display in front of city hall June 27, 2001 in Grand Junction, CO.

5. Ten Commandments A panel of three federal appellate judges ruled on Friday that a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in public school classrooms is unconstitutional.