NEW ORLEANS (WGNO-TV) – State Senator Royce Duplessis, (D) New Orleans, calls Louisiana’s new Ten Commandments law unnecessary and embarrassing. And that’s just for starters. Duplessis, who voted against the bill that became law with Governor Jeff Landry’s signature on Wednesday (June 20), says the law is just the start of an effort by the […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has long been reliably red. The Bayou State has voted for the Republican candidate in every presidential election since 2000, with residents overwhelmingly supporting Donald Trump during the past two, and the GOP has held a majority in the statehouse for years. But policies in the state have veered […]
The Louisiana lawmaker behind the radical new law requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed in public school classrooms across her state is no stranger to the culture wars. State Rep. Dodie Horton, a Republican from Haughton, Louisiana, is also one of the prime movers behind her state’s bill prohibiting teachers from discussing gender identity […]
Louisiana just passed a law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. The Supreme Court rejected a similar Kentucky law in 1980. But this isn’t 1980, and a law that flies in the face of the Constitution and precedent isn’t necessarily doomed if it reaches the high court. The American Civil Liberties […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A bill signed into law this week makes Louisiana the only state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every classroom in public schools and colleges — and stirs the long-running debate over the role of religion in government institutions. Under the new law, all public K-12 classrooms and […]
Louisiana has become the first state in the US to require the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom. It is the latest move from a Republican-dominated legislature pushing a conservative agenda under a new governor. Republican Governor Jeff Landry signed the law into legislation on Wednesday requiring a poster-sized display of the […]
A Ten Commandments sculpture is on display in front of City Hall in Grand Junction, Colorado. (Michael Smith/Getty Images) Four civil liberties groups will sue the state of Louisiana after Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed a law Wednesday that calls for the Ten Commandments to be displayed in school classrooms. The new rule applies to […]
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry on Wednesday signed into law a bill that makes the state the only one in the country to require displaying the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom. The American Civil Liberties Union immediately announced it would sue to block the law, saying it violates the […]
Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday. The GOP-drafted legislation mandates that a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable font” be required in all public classrooms, […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday. The GOP-drafted legislation mandates that a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable font” be […]
Louisiana’s Republican Governor Jeff Landry is looking for a legal fight after mandating the Ten Commandments in every classroom in the state. “I’m going home to sign a bill that places the Ten Commandments in public classrooms,” he said during a recent GOP fundraiser in Tennessee. “I can’t wait to be sued.” Landry signed the […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana could soon become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom — in another expansion of religion into day-to-day life by a Republican-dominated legislature. The legislation received final approval from the state’s GOP-dominated Legislature earlier this week and is headed to […]