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, ...

A federal judge has ruled that several Texas school districts do not need to comply with a state law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all classrooms. The colorful 55-page opinion ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump announced his intention to bring prayer into public schools, furthering a push to place religious ...

Texans have their eyes on a dramatic special session at the moment, but many new laws that passed during the regular session will take effect September 1. This week and next, the Chronicle is rounding ...

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.

In response to a letter on July 21 regarding “What the Fifth Circuit missed on the Ten Commandments law,” I’d like to remind readers that this law was an attempt to place the Ten Commandments in the ...

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