A judge has placed a halt on Louisiana’s newly passed law requiring all government-run schools to display the Ten Commandments in each of their classrooms.
The move comes after various groups filed a lawsuit against the state arguing that the law violates the First Amendment. The law will not be enforced until November 15, 2024, according to the court’s ruling.
Both parties agreed that the Ten Commandments will not be posted in any public school classroom and defendants — including the state’s Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education — and schools will not publicly move forward on the law’s implementation until November.
Lester Duhe, a spokesperson for the Louisiana Attorney General’s office, clarified that the defendants “agreed not to take public-facing compliance measures” until then because it will give time for “briefing, oral arguments and a decision”…
