Justices Asked to Hear Case On Ten Commandments
The families say the law pressures students to accept a state-favored scripture and violates parents' right to direct religious instruction.
- Civil rights groups and over two dozen multifaith families petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a Texas law requiring public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments.
- The legal petition challenges Texas Senate Bill 10, which mandates that K-12 public schools permanently and conspicuously display a state-approved King James Bible version of the Ten Commandments in every classroom.
- Plaintiffs—Represented by the ACLU, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom From Religion Foundation—argue the law violates the First Amendment by imposing state-selected religious scripture on students.
- The appeal asks the high court to overturn a 9–8 ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the mandate on the grounds that it does not violate the Establishment or Free Exercise Clauses.
- The plaintiffs point to the landmark 1980 precedent Stone v. Graham, where the Supreme Court struck down a similar Kentucky classroom mandate, while the 5th Circuit relied on more recent rulings regarding historical practices.
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Texas families ask Supreme Court to review state law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms
More than two dozen Texas families have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether the state can require public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. The filing, coordinated by the ACLU and other civil-rights groups, comes after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled earlier this year that Texas’ and […] The post Texas families ask Supreme Court to review state law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms appe…
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ACLU Asks Supreme Court to Block Texas Ten Commandments Classroom Law
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Civil rights advocates on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Texas law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments, teeing up a potential new test of state-sponsored religious expression in classrooms.
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