No: Louisiana Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed a bill, H.B. 71, on Wednesday requiring all public schools in the state to display a poster of the Ten Commandments in each classroom. The Commandments must be, per the text of the bill, in “large, easily readable font,” and they will be displayed at every level of schooling, including at public universities.
“If you want to respect the rule of law,” Landry said recently, per National Review, “you’ve got to start from the original law giver, which was Moses.” Landry also said that he “can’t wait to be sued” over this.
Landry may be trying to garner a reputation as a culture war provocateur, but the governor could easily look around and figure out how the courts are likely to rule on this, since it’s already been tried before.
In 1980, the Supreme Court overturned a similar statute in Stone v. Graham, ruling that the First Amendment bars displays of the Ten Commandments in…
