Supreme Court asked to hear case on Texas law requiring Ten Commandments in schools
The families say the law pressures students to accept a state-favored scripture and violates parents' right to direct religious instruction.
- Civil rights groups and over two dozen multifaith families petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a Texas law requiring public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments.
- The legal petition challenges Texas Senate Bill 10, which mandates that K-12 public schools permanently and conspicuously display a state-approved King James Bible version of the Ten Commandments in every classroom.
- Plaintiffs—Represented by the ACLU, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom From Religion Foundation—argue the law violates the First Amendment by imposing state-selected religious scripture on students.
- The appeal asks the high court to overturn a 9–8 ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the mandate on the grounds that it does not violate the Establishment or Free Exercise Clauses.
- The plaintiffs point to the landmark 1980 precedent Stone v. Graham, where the Supreme Court struck down a similar Kentucky classroom mandate, while the 5th Circuit relied on more recent rulings regarding historical practices.
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The issues in the case would be of “exceptional national importance” for the high court to review, the families said. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)More than two dozen Texas families on Monday asked the Supreme Court to review a state law requiring public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments, in a case that could alter the separation between church and state.The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, along with several other legal and …
ACLU asks high court to review TX Ten Commandments mandate
The American Civil Liberties Union asked the Supreme Court on Monday to review a Texas law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, arguing the mandate violates students’ and parents’ First Amendment rights. The petition asks the justices to take up two challenges to Senate Bill 10, which was enacted in 2025 and requires Texas public schools to display a state-selected version of the Ten Commandments permanent…
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