Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression.

The Ten Commandments monument at the Texas State Capitol, June 28, 2017. A new law requiring the display of an explicitly Protestant translation of the Ten Commandments in all Texas public-school ...

Texas recently became the third state in two years, following Louisiana and Arkansas, to pass a law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms. Soon after — like the other states ...

Louisiana’s law requiring that public school classrooms display the Ten Commandments is “discriminatory and coercive” and “unconstitutional on its face,” a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. US District ...

This story was previously published on June 27, 2025, and has been recirculated at the start of the school year. AUSTIN — A new law requiring displays of the Ten Commandments in every Texas public ...

Debbie Leimback displays one of the hundreds of Ten Commandments posters she was preparing to deliver to local public schools in New Braunfels, Texas, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. (Credit: Eric Gay/AP.) ...

More legal battles are brewing over Texas’ requirement that schools display posters of the Ten Commandments, as a federal appeals court is set to hear arguments on the constitutionality of a state law ...

The polarizing court battle over Texas’ Ten Commandments display law has reignited the debate over religion in public schools. Attorney General Ken Paxton, whose office is defending the requirement, ...

As disputes rage on over religion’s place in public schools, the Ten Commandments have become a focal point. At least a dozen states have considered proposals that would require classrooms to post the ...

A donated Ten Commandments monument has been permanently restored to Kentucky's state Capitol grounds this week, more than four decades after it was removed. The granite monument was returned on ...