The governor of Louisiana just signed a law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools. There are two problems with this. The first and most obvious is that the Constitution ...

In this file photo from 2004, then-Attorney General Greg Abbott defended the constitutionality of a granite slab bearing the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the Texas Capitol. Soon, Gov. Greg ...

Contributing columnist Abby McCloskey writes that Texas' new law placing Ten Commandments posters in classrooms misses a larger point about character education. Michael Hogue/Staff Artist; ...

The state of Louisiana is claiming an authority God Himself does not exercise. That is not righteousness. That is power ...

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.

As disputes rage on over religion’s place in public schools, the Ten Commandments have become a focal point. At least a dozen states have considered proposals that would require classrooms to post the ...

As millions of children return to classrooms this fall, parents are aware of a profound truth: While they remain the primary educators of their children, a strong partnership with schools is essential ...

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 ...

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 ...

Josh Hammer is Newsweek senior editor-at-large, host of “The Josh Hammer Show,” senior counsel for the Article III Project, and a research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation. His first book is ...