Jun 19, 2024 · BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom, the latest move from a GOP-dominated Legislature...

Jan 23, 2025 · Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill holds up a mini-display showing the Ten Commandments during a press conference regarding the Ten Commandments in schools, Aug. 5, 2024, in Baton Rouge, La. (Hilary Scheinuk/The Advocate via AP, File)

Jun 20, 2024 · House Bill 71, approved by state lawmakers last month, mandates that a poster-size display of the Ten Commandments with “large, easily readable font” be in every classroom at schools that receive...

Aug 5, 2024 · Louisiana officials unveiled several posters of the Ten Commandments on Monday that could soon be placed in state classrooms and which feature House Speaker Mike Johnson, the late Supreme...

Jun 20, 2024 · Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom. Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday signed the bill mandating the displays.

Nov 12, 2024 · Louisiana law ordering Ten Commandments in schools ruled unconstitutional. What's next? A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a Louisiana state law requiring the Ten Commandments to be...

Jan 27, 2025 · A three-judge panel last week heard oral arguments about a Louisiana law requiring Ten Commandments displays in K-12 and public college and university classrooms.. The Jan. 23 hearing in the Fifth U.S. Cricut Court of Appeals in New Orleans came just over two months after a federal judge declared the legislation “unconstitutional on its face” as well as “discriminatory” and “coercive ...

Nov 12, 2024 · (AP) — A new Louisiana requirement that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public classrooms is “unconstitutional on its face,” a federal judge ruled Tuesday, ordering state education officials not to take steps to enforce it and to notify all local school boards in the state of his decision.

Jun 19, 2024 · Gov. Jeff Landry signed legislation on Wednesday requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in every public classroom in Louisiana, making the state the only one with such a mandate and...

Louisiana House Bill 71 (H.B. 71), or Act 676, [1] was a law passed by the Louisiana State Legislature and signed by Governor Jeff Landry in June 2024 that directs schools to display a copy of the Ten Commandments in classrooms. On November 12, 2024, United States District Judge John W. deGravelles ruled House Bill 71 unconstitutional, arguing that it was "coercive to students" who "cannot opt ...