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Tatyana Tandanpolie

SCOTUS may uphold "unconstitutional" law

Louisiana just became the first state to require public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms — and constitutional law experts are sounding the alarm. 

Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed the legislation, HB-71, into law Wednesday, requiring all public schools, from kindergartens to state-funded universities, to display a poster — no smaller than 11 by 14 inches — of the Decalogue, using language and an arrangement hand-picked by the legislature, in "large, easily readable font" in each classroom.

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