Republican Governor Jeff Landry signed the law into legislation on Wednesday requiring a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable font” in all public classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities. “If you want to respect the rule of law, you’ve got to start from the original lawgiver, which was Moses” Governor Landry said. Similar bills requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms have been proposed in other states, including Texas, Oklahoma, and Utah. With threats of legal battles over the constitutionality of such measures, no state besides Louisiana has succeeded in making the bills law. Legal battles over the display of the Ten Commandments in classrooms are not new.
