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Texas Requires the Ten Commandments Be Posted in Every Classroom. SCOTUS May Decide If That's Constitutional.

A major separation-of-church-and-state case lands at the Supreme Court.

Damon Root | 8.20.2026 7:00 AM

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The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits the government from passing any law "respecting the establishment of religion." Yet Texas has passed a law requiring every public school classroom in the state to prominently display the text of the Ten Commandments, as it appears in the King James version of the Bible. Does that state law violate the Establishment Clause?

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Earlier this week, lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), representing a number of Texas families "of diverse faiths and beliefs—including Baha'ism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, Unitarian........

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