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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The appeal arrived at the U.S. Supreme Court late in the summer of 1980, after more than two years of debate and legal action in Kentucky over a state law that required the display of the Ten ...

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, ...

(RNS) — The headlines could have read, “Sacred Jewish text to be posted in Louisiana classrooms; most Jews are opposed.” That headline would have been correct. Yes, Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana has ...

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The Collier County Commission voted 4-1 to display the Ten Commandments alongside other historical documents in county buildings.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 ...

Legislation signed into law on June 19, 2024 by Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry requires a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in all public classrooms in the state, from kindergarten to state ...