Federal Judge Blocks Texas Law Mandating Ten Commandments in Public Schools
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction, ruling Texas's law requiring public school districts to display the Ten Commandments unconstitutional, citing a violation of the Establishment Clause.
Overview
- A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction, mandating that Texas public school districts remove displays of the Ten Commandments from classrooms.
- The ruling declared the state law, which required these displays, to be unconstitutional, preventing its enforcement across Texas schools.
- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had previously filed a lawsuit against two school districts for not complying with the now-unconstitutional state law.
- Federal judges determined that displaying the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms violates the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
- This judicial order requires school districts to cease displaying the religious text, upholding the separation of church and state in public education.
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The Establishment Clause is part of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, prohibiting government actions that establish an official religion or favor one religion over another. The federal judge ruled that Texas's law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public schools violates this clause by promoting a specific religious text in public education.
Ken Paxton filed lawsuits against three Texas school districts—Galveston, Round Rock, and Leander ISDs—for not complying with the state law mandating the display of the Ten Commandments in classrooms.
The injunction requires all Texas public school districts to remove any displays of the Ten Commandments from classrooms and prevents enforcement of the state law mandating these displays.
The school districts involved in the lawsuit were Galveston, Round Rock, and Leander Independent School Districts.
Previous court rulings have generally held that displaying religious texts like the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms violates the Establishment Clause as it may endorse religion, reinforcing the principle of separation between church and state in public education.
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