A federal judge in Texas has ordered several public school districts to remove classroom displays of the Ten Commandments and barred them from posting new ones, ruling that a new state law requiring the displays likely violates the First Amendment.
In a Nov. 18 preliminary injunction, U.S. District Judge Orlando L. Garcia found that Senate Bill 10—which mandates large, readable Ten Commandments posters in every public-school classroom—runs afoul of the Establishment Clause’s prohibition on government endorsement of religion.
