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 ...

Jewish communities have been an integral part of the American fabric since the founding of our nation. In a 1790 letter to the Touro Synagogue in Newport, R.I., President George Washington affirmed ...

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.

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 ...

As a former teacher and mother of six, I have spent years witnessing the downward shift in American classrooms, as they dropped from instilling wisdom to mere knowledge. Schools turned into ...

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 ...

When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott served as his state's attorney general in 2005, he appeared before the Supreme Court to argue Van Orden v. Perry. The question was whether a monument inscribed with the Ten ...