Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression.

Texas recently became the third state in two years, following Louisiana and Arkansas, to pass a law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms. Soon after — like the other states ...

A federal judge has barred 11 school districts from implementing the state law, calling it unconstitutional. Paxton has ordered all other districts to display the Ten Commandments.

Britannica reports he 1923 The Ten Commandments is a silent film with two distinct storylines. The first tells the biblical tale of Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt. The second is a ...