Texas Ten Commandments Law Tests a New Era of Church-State Rules

Texas public school classrooms now display the Ten Commandments because state law requires it, and the Supreme Court has not said whether it will stop them. The law, passed last year, requires a version of the King James Bible's Ten Commandments in a conspicuous place in every public school classroom. It survived lower-court challenges earlier this year and went into effect widely this fall. The court has yet to say whether it will take the case. The popular assumption is that a law like this rises or falls on a single Supreme Court ruling. The Texas situation suggests something messier: implementation is running ahead of adjudication. Posters are going up while the legal question stays open, and that gap is where the actual politics and logistics of the law are being worked out. We covered a connected angle in Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Divest-or-Ban Law in Unanimous Ruling.

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