Federal judge blocks Texas public schools from displaying Ten Commandments in classrooms

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A federal judge on Wednesday blocked a Texas bill requiring public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments, the latest in a string of setbacks for red states seeking to introduce the religious text into schools.

Judge Fred Biery wrote in an order granting a preliminary injunction that the Republican-led legislature could not demonstrate a tradition of public schools posting the Ten Commandments, which he said was needed for the bill to withstand court precedents.

"This Court finds there is insufficient evidence of a broad tradition in place at the time of the Founding, and within the history of public education, to justify S.B. 10," Biery wrote.

Biery, a Clinton appointee, also said the legislation was not neutral enough on religion to be constitutional. The bill "impermissibly takes sides on theological questions and officially favors Christian den...

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