Families Ask Supreme Court To Reject Texas Law That Requires Ten Commandments Classroom Displays

ACLU Takes Texas Ten Commandments Fight To Supreme Court

The ACLU and allied groups are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse federal appeals court rulings that upheld Texas’ law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms, pushing a constitutional fight that could affect similar laws nationwide. More than two dozen Texas families filed a joint petition Monday seeking review of two cases challenging Senate Bill 10: Nathan v. Alamo Heights Independent School District and Cribbs R…

Court Clash Over Forced Faith In Schools

The Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether Texas can force every public-school classroom to post the Ten Commandments, reviving a church-state fight with national stakes. Story Highlights Texas law orders a Ten Commandments display in every public-school classroom, with fixed size and text rules. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton told districts the mandate...

Families Ask Supreme Court To Reject Texas Law That Requires Ten Commandments Classroom Displays

More than two dozen families from a variety of faiths and school districts have challenged the Texas law that requires schools to post the state-approved version of the Ten Commandments in classrooms.

ACLU Challenges Texas Ten Commandments School Law at SCOTUS

Civil rights groups have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to block a Texas law requiring the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom, setting up a First Amendment fight that could reshape religious liberty law nationwide. The ACLU, representing more than two dozen Texas families, filed the petition after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law in a narrow 9-8 ruling in April. That decision reversed lower court orders that ha…