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 ...
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 ...
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published by The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Litigation over posting the Ten ...
A federal appeals court next year will hear Texas' arguments against a ruling that blocked nearly a dozen school districts from displaying posters of the Ten Commandments. The 17 active judges on the ...
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 ...
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 ...
When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott served 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 Ten ...
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 ...
AUSTIN, Texas (KLTV) - A Texas federal judge on Wednesday blocked from taking full effect a new state law requiring public schools to display donated posters of the Ten Commandments in classrooms. The ...
The polarizing court battle over Texas' Ten Commandments display law has reignited the debate over religion in public schools. Attorney General Ken Paxton, whose office is defending the requirement, ...
Terence P. Jeffrey is investigative editor for the Daily Caller News Foundation. When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was serving as his state’s attorney general in 2005, he appeared before the Supreme Court ...