Louisiana will urge the Fifth Circuit Thursday to lift a preliminary injunction that bars it from enforcing a law requiring the Ten Commandments be displayed in public school classrooms.

When most Louisiana public school students went back to school earlier this week after the holidays, they may have found a new poster in each of their classrooms displaying the Ten Commandments. Why it matters: A controversial new law requiring the display went into effect Jan.

A new bill filed in Tennessee and loosely modeled after a Louisiana law currently facing a legal battle would require schools to display the Ten Commandments, a portion of the Declaration of Independence,

Similar proposals are in multiple states after a court ruling in 2022, though opponents say the move would impose one religious view on people with different religious traditions

Columnist Will Sutton: "Have you seen school districts and systems rushing to set aside money to fund this mandate?" "Have you heard that there's a groundswell of donors scrambling to donate money for this cause?

The groups claim that the law mandating the posting of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom would put the government in the position of favoring certain religious traditions over others.

The state of Louisiana is having trouble attributing the motivations of the Ten Commandments law to historical significance, pushing aside any educational significance it is meant

Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear how the Ten Commandments law is faring as it goes into effect as of the beginning of the year. Plus, we learn about the late President Jimmy Carter’s role building affordable houses for Louisianans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Conservative lawmakers across the U.S. are pushing to introduce more Christianity to public school classrooms, testing the separation of church and state.

In 2015, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ordered the removal of a statue of the Ten Commandments from the state Capitol, finding it a violation of the state Constitution. A year later, Oklahoma voters upheld the state Constitution’s prohibition against spending public funds for religious purposes.

Marty Jackley supported the Louisiana law in court, but his spokesman Tony Mangan said he hasn't read the South Dakota bill yet.

BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) – North Dakota’s school boards already have a state law that gives them the ability to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms, if they are accompanied by other historical documents. Now, lawmakers are debating whether to require posting the commandments in every public K-12 and college classroom.