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.

The Texas Senate has approved a bill requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms in public schools. This follows hard on the heels of a similar bill in Louisiana that is presently ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stone tablets depicting the Ten Commandments are shown outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 27, 2005, placed there during a vigil by a religious group. (OSV News photo/Jason Reed, ...

Stone tablets depicting the Ten Commandments are shown outside the Supreme Court in Washington June 27, 2005, placed there during a vigil by a religious group. In Louisiana, Public school classrooms ...

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On Tuesday, the full, 17-judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard consolidated oral arguments in a crucial case that is all but guaranteed to make it to the U.S. Supreme Court. The ...

The Collier County Commission voted 4-1 to display the Ten Commandments alongside other historical documents in county buildings. The decision followed a heated debate, with opponents citing ...

"It's a no-win situation," said Mark Chancey, Biblical Studies professor at Southern Methodist University. "Districts that post the commandments will be faulted for disregarding the courts and the ...