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.

Both sides in a federal lawsuit over the display of the Ten Commandments in Arkansas public schools have filed motions for ...

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 ...

The helpful website, gotquestions.org, has over 10,000 answers to frequently asked Bible questions, such as this one: "Do Christians have to obey the Old Testament law?" After briefly explaining some ...

Indiana already mandates public schools teach every moral value promoted by the Ten Commandments. That includes ...

A state law directs Texas public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. Since going into effect on Sept. 1, ...

KYLE, Texas (KXAN) – The Ten Commandments are now posted in schools across Hays Consolidated Independent School District after a Christian nonprofit donated more than 2,500 posters. With the passage ...

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 ...

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, ...

Terence P. Jeffrey is investigative editor for the Daily Caller News Foundation. When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was serving as his state’s attorney general in 2005, he appeared before the Supreme Court ...

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 ...

Senate Bill 10, a law passed in Texas’s 89th legislative session, requiring every public school classroom to display a copy of the Ten Commandments, went into effect on Monday. This bill mandates that ...