Ratio Decidendi is a recurring series by Stephanie Barclay exploring the reasoning – from practical considerations to deep ...

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments Tuesday about the constitutionality of Texas and Louisiana's Ten ...

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 ...

Texas is bound by the U.S. Constitution, which was not judicially created by law. That’s why I have a problem when judges create law rather than legislators. There are three branches of government at ...

The United States was founded on ecumenical biblical principles, and the Ten Commandments embody that ecumenicism.

A Ten Commandments poster is seen with boxes of others before they were delivered to local public schools in New Braunfels, Texas, on Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. A federal appeals court appears open to ...

A federal appeals court heard arguments in lawsuits seeking to block Texas and Louisiana from requiring classroom displays of ...

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 June, Texas legislators passed a bill requiring the Ten Commandments be posted in every public school classroom across the state. Senate Bill 10 went into effect on Sept. 1 and the Victoria ...

Contributing columnist Abby McCloskey writes that Texas' new law placing Ten Commandments posters in classrooms misses a larger point about character education. Michael Hogue/Staff Artist; ...