"As disputes rage on over religion's place in public schools, the Ten Commandments have become a focal point. At least a dozen states have considered proposals that would require classrooms to post the biblical laws, and three passed laws mandating their display in 2024-2025: Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas. All three laws have been at least partially blocked - most recently Texas' law - after federal trial court rulings."
"As religion and education law researchers, we believe this situation is especially noteworthy because of its timing. The Supreme Court has been using a new standard to assess religious freedom cases - and its judgments on religion's role in public education are perhaps the most religion-friendly they have ever been. The Ten Commandments and the courts Litigation over the Ten Commandments is not new."
Several states proposed or enacted laws requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, and Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas adopted such laws in 2024-2025. Federal trial courts have at least partially blocked those laws, with the Texas statute most recently affected. Current litigation seeks to overturn a 45-year Supreme Court precedent that prohibited posting the Ten Commandments in public schools. The Supreme Court recently applied a new, more religion-friendly standard to religious freedom cases, affecting judgments about religion in public education. Earlier Supreme Court decisions initially upheld recitation mandates until the First Amendment was applied to states; Stone v. Graham (1980) struck down classroom displays under the Establishment Clause and the Lemon test.
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