The Texas measure easily passed in the Republican-controlled state House and Senate in the legislative session that ended June 2.

Texas will require all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments under a new law that will make the state the nation’s largest to attempt to impose such a mandate.

Gov. Greg Abbott announced Saturday that he signed the bill, which is expected to draw a legal challenge from critics who consider it an unconstitutional violation of the separation of church and state.

A similar law in Louisiana was blocked when a federal appeals court ruled Friday that it was unconstitutional. Arkansas also has a similar law that has been challenged in federal court.

    • RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world
      13·
      17 hours ago

      this is nothing new, Republicans have been trying to do shit like this since I can remember and it fails in court every single fucking time

        • Optional@lemmy.world
          4·
          12 hours ago

          Unrelated (?)

          The Nuclear Option: Judicial Engineering by Design

          The term “nuclear option” sounds dramatic, but what unfolded was exactly that: a procedural detonation that reshaped the U.S. judiciary—and cleared the runway for Donald Trump’s legal invincibility. In 2017, Mitch McConnell pulled the nuclear trigger for Supreme Court confirmations. Facing a filibuster on Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch, McConnell changed the rules to force him through with just 51 votes.

          What followed was a full-on Federalist Society takeover of the federal judiciary:

          • 3 Supreme Court justices: Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett
          • Over 200 lower court judges, all fast-tracked under the new simple-majority rules

          Let’s just say: McConnell caught the car—which turned out to be a MAGA bus barreling straight toward the Constitution. And no, his idol Ronald Reagan wouldn’t be pleased—at this trajectory, our children will soon be learning Russian.

        • RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world
          25·
          16 hours ago

          that doesn’t matter as much as you might think it does and Biden pack the courts like crazy as well before Trump came back into power I wouldn’t worry about that as much necessarily

          • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            14 hours ago

            and Biden pack the courts like crazy as well before Trump came back into power

            Tell me more about this. How so?

          • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
            4·
            15 hours ago

            Yet it was a Trump judge vying for a promotion that allowed him to retain control of CAs national guard.

            It was a Trump judge that allowed him free from consequence for how he stored confidential documents in a bathroom near a copier while allowing visitors. There are enough of them and 6 on the Supreme court.