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Robert Tait

ACLU sues Louisiana over requiring the display of Ten Commandments in public schools

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Jeff Landry, the governor of Louisiana, said: ‘I can’t wait to be sued.’ He is now being sued by the ACLU and other civil liberties groups. Photograph: Hilary Scheinuk/AP

US civil liberties groups have sued Louisiana for what they called its “blatantly unconstitutional” new law requiring all state-funded schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) joined with its Louisiana affiliate and two other bodies – Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the Freedom from Religion Foundation – for the suit against the law, signed on Wednesday by the state’s rightwing Republican governor, Jeff Landry.

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