Judge temporarily blocks Texas' Ten Commandments requirement in 11 school districts [View all]
Source: Texas Tribune
A Texas federal judge on Wednesday blocked from taking full effect a new state law requiring public schools to display donated posters of the Ten Commandments in classrooms.
The ruling only applies to the nearly a dozen Texas school districts named in the lawsuit, though attorneys who brought forth the lawsuit expressed hope in court that other districts would not implement a law that a federal judge has now found unconstitutional.
Oral arguments in the case, Rabbi Nathan v. Alamo Heights Independent School District, concluded on Monday, several weeks after 16 parents of various religious backgrounds, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and other religious freedom organizations, sued the state over what their lawyers called "catastrophically unconstitutional” legislation.
In court, they argued with a lawyer from the state attorney general's office over the role Founding Fathers like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison played in developing the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment, which protects the freedom of religion. Both parties also debated the influence of the Ten Commandments on the country's legal and educational systems, and whether the version of the Ten Commandments required to go up in schools belongs to a particular religious group.
Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/26/texas-schools-commandments-requirement-lawsuit/
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