Texas to defend law requiring 10 Commandments in classrooms
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A panel of judges previously struck down Louisiana's law, but the decision was later vacated. Here's what you need to know.
The Fifth Court of Appeals is hearing the fight over Texas and Louisiana laws that require displaying the religious text in public school classrooms.
In 2022, the Supreme Court largely abandoned the three-part Lemon Test, used to determine whether a law or governmental action violated the separation of church and state clause in the Constitution. It was set in place by the 1971 Supreme Court case Lemon v. Kurtzman.