Ratio Decidendi is a recurring series by Stephanie Barclay exploring the reasoning – from practical considerations to deep ...

On Tuesday, the full, 17-judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard consolidated oral arguments in a crucial ...

A state law mandating the display of the Ten Commandments in every classroom has already divided Texas schools. Now a federal ...

A federal appeals court heard arguments in lawsuits seeking to block Texas and Louisiana from requiring classroom displays of ...

The argument over whether a Bible passage should be displayed in public school classrooms was never intended to be an attack on Protestant Christians, The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard ...

Arguments in the latest battle over the separation of church and state will be heard Tuesday in a Louisiana federal courtroom ...

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, ...

More legal battles are brewing over Texas’ requirement that schools display posters of the Ten Commandments, as a federal appeals court is set to hear arguments on the constitutionality of a state law ...

A sculpture with the Ten Commandments is pictured on the Texas Capitol grounds on Thursday, June 26, 2025, in Austin. A federal appeals court next year will hear Texas' arguments against a ruling that ...

Both sides in a federal lawsuit over the display of the Ten Commandments in Arkansas public schools have filed motions for ...

All three laws have been at least partially blocked – most recently Texas’ law – after federal trial court rulings. But the ongoing cases seem aimed at overturning a 45-year-old U.S. Supreme Court ...