Louisiana’s 2020 Teacher of the Year, has filed a lawsuit challenging a new state law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom by Jan. 1.

Gov. Jeff Landry says the Ten Commandments are integral to the country’s foundational documents. A legal historian testified that this is a “myth”

A federal judge will hear arguments on whether he should temporarily block a new Louisiana law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom by Jan. 1.

Opponents of a new law that requires displays of the Ten Commandments in Louisiana classrooms point out that its language includes a quote attributed to one of the nation’s founding fathers that he didn’t actually say.

A federal judge will decide by Nov. 15 whether to temporarily block a Louisiana law requiring classroom displays of the Ten Commandments.

A federal judge considers a First Amendment challenge to a new state-wide requirement that every public school classroom display a poster with the biblical set of laws.

Louisiana’s 2020 Teacher of the Year is suing the state over a new law that requires public schools to post the Ten Commandments, arguing it makes teachers complicit in promoting religion and conveying to students that some faiths are superior to others.

It's the second lawsuit filed against the law, which was enacted in June; the first was filed in Baton Rouge soon after the law passed.

A copy of the Ten Commandments is posted June 20 with other historical documents in a hallway of the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta.

A federal judge in Baton Rouge is weighing whether a challenge to the state’s new Ten Commandments law can proceed after a hearing earlier this week.