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.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
      4·
      16 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·
      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

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        18 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·
        19 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.