US EditionState's Ten Commandments Win Less Dazzling than Advertised
The ruling says the mandate is not unconstitutional indoctrination as the law becomes the nation’s largest effort to post the Ten Commandments in schools.
- On Tuesday, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Texas law requiring the King James Bible's Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom in a 9-8 vote.
- Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed the mandate into law last year, with requirements taking effect in September, marking the largest attempt in the nation to display religious texts in public schools.
- First Liberty Institute counsel David Hacker called the text a "foundational moral, literary and historical text," while education advocate Brianna Davis argued the mandate promotes "Christian nationalism" and violates church-state separation.
- The American Civil Liberties Union and the Freedom From Religion Foundation plan to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court to "reverse this decision and uphold the religious-freedom rights of children and parents."
- Three years ago, the Supreme Court issued instructions that lower courts must follow precedent, yet critics say the 5th Circuit defied this command. Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, called the narrow decision "shocking.
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Ten Commandments Can Return to Texas Classrooms, 5th Circuit Says
William A. Morgan The John Minor Wisdom U.S. Court of Appeals Building, home of the Fifth Circuit, is seen on Magazine Street in New Orleans. COMMENTARY: The ruling returns Establishment Clause analysis to its proper moorings: the nation’s history and tradition.
Rogue Ten Commandments ruling may force Supreme Court to wallop conservative allies
Slate legal analysts flagged what they say is one of the most brazen acts of judicial defiance in recent memory: a federal appeals court that broke a Supreme Court rule specifically about breaking Supreme Court rules.In a 9-8 vote on Tuesday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Texas's law ...
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Texas Ten Commandments law may reach Supreme Court
(The Center Square) – A federal appeals court ruling upholding a Texas law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms is setting up a potential challenge before the U.S. Supreme Court over the role of religion in public education.
Ten Commandments In Schools Law Upheld, As Fifth Circuit Declares ‘Thou Shalt Not Confuse Us With Facts’
Texas passed a law mandating that schools must display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. Because nothing says, “we’re not establishing a religion” like forcing students to learn under the watchful eye of a legislature’s preferred scripture. The law inspired a swift legal challenge because the First Amendment is, to its credit, unambiguous on this point. And this challenge carried the day until it ran into a divided Fifth Circuit. In Nathan v. …
Appeals court upholds Texas law requiring Ten Commandments in schools
A federal appeals court ruled in favor of a Texas state law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments.The law, signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, took effect in September after being passed by the state last year. It marks the largest attempt in the nation to hang the Ten Commandments in public schools. Appeals court upholds Texas law requiring Ten Commandments in schoolsThe mandate is sparking controversy online and across Co…
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