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
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    19 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

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        15 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.

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        19 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

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          17 hours ago

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

          Tell me more about this. How so?

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          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.