Texas recently became the third state in two years, following Louisiana and Arkansas, to pass a law requiring Ten ...

"The 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court will decide what they want and then try to rationalize it," one First Amendment ...

When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was serving 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 high court is hearing arguments today in Van Orden v. Perry and McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky, cases testing the constitutionality of Ten Commandment displays in public places. The ...

Scopes "Monkey Trial" in Tennessee, where a teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution, continues to influence debates on ...

A federal judge was not ready Friday to rule on a pair of motions in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a state law requiring all public schools in Arkansas to display the Ten Commandments ...

A federal appeals court ruled that Louisiana's Ten Commandments classroom mandate unconstitutional, sparking appeal plans.

In a 1980 ruling, justices struck down a Kentucky law mandating the posting of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. Our nation's highest court ruled the same way in a similar Kentucky ...

A federal judge said he will decide soon whether to block implementation of a new state law requiring the display of the Ten ...

The court ruled 5-4 for Texas, with Chief Justice William Rehnquist writing the main opinion—in which he noted multiple references to the Ten Commandments in the Supreme Court’s own building.