Federal judges keep blocking Ten Commandments classroom laws, but Republican-led states are flooding schools with religious posters anyway and betting the Supreme Court will eventually back them up.
Louisiana leads the charge
Louisiana leads the charge
- Louisiana became the first state to mandate classroom displays in 1980.
- A Fifth Circuit ruling lifted the injunction, letting the law proceed.
- Governor Jeff Landry ordered superintendents to hang the posters immediately.
- Challengers are exploring paths to get Supreme Court review.
- An Arkansas judge permanently blocked the law as unconstitutional coercion.
- He called, displaying sacred texts in classrooms, straight-up proselytizing.
- Two Texas judges blocked enforcement across 24 school districts.
- Ken Paxton appealed and threatened to sue noncompliant districts.
- South Carolina's bill passed the House and heads to the Senate.
- Alabama wants displays in every fifth-through-twelfth-grade history classroom.
- West Virginia's version covers all public buildings statewide.
- Missouri's bill appears stalled for the time being.
- Church groups have flooded schools with donated posters already.
- At least one Texas teacher resigned over the mandate.
- Critics say these laws trample parents' religious-education rights.
- Indiana and Tennessee are pushing softer, permission-based alternatives.
