A federal judge on Monday struck down an Arkansas law requiring schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms, saying there are no “historical practices and understanding to support” the ...
JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - A U.S. District Judge struck down Act 573 Monday for six Arkansas school districts. The law requires public schools to post a state-approved ...
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On Tuesday, the full, 17-judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard consolidated oral arguments in a crucial case that is all but guaranteed to make it to the U.S. Supreme Court. The ...
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published by The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Litigation over posting the Ten ...
Christian activists in several states have been tenaciously pushing legislation requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in every public school classroom in their state. During my more than 50 ...
Ratio Decidendi is a recurring series by Stephanie Barclay exploring the reasoning – from practical considerations to deep theory – behind our nation’s most consequential constitutional decisions. On ...
Controversy over the commandments is not new. In more than a dozen early cases, courts generally upheld laws and policies mandating their recitation in schools. These enactments survived because the ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An Arkansas law requiring that the Ten Commandments be prominently displayed in public school classrooms was struck down by a federal judge Monday. ‘Two ways of calculating ...