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Lucy Campbell

Louisiana schools can display Ten Commandments, appeals court rules

Louisiana’s attorney general, Liz Murrill, holds up a display of the Ten Commandments in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on 5 August 2024.
Louisiana’s attorney general, Liz Murrill, holds up a display of the Ten Commandments in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on 5 August 2024. Photograph: Hilary Scheinuk/AP

A federal appeals court cleared the way on Friday for a controversial Louisiana law requiring poster-sized displays of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom, allowing the state to enforce a law that was previously found to be unconstitutional.

The US fifth circuit court of appeals voted 12-6 to lift a preliminary injunction on the law after most the judges found that it was premature to decide on the law’s constitutionality, as it had not gone into effect.

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