Louisiana teacher asks Supreme Court to stop Ten Commandments displays in classrooms

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A Louisiana teacher, Chris Dier, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his challenge to a 2024 state law requiring Ten Commandments posters in every K-12 and college classroom at schools receiving state money. The law took effect this summer after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals cleared the way, ending a prior legal holdup.

Dier, Louisiana's 2020 Teacher of the Year, argues the state is turning his classroom into a vehicle for religious messaging he never agreed to deliver. Attorney General Liz Murrill declined to address his petition directly, saying only that schools should follow the law.

Similar mandates have since passed in Texas, Alabama, Tennessee and Arkansas, drawing their own legal challenges; Texas's case has already reached the Supreme Court, with Louisiana asking that its law be reviewed separately.

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Telling a teacher to just follow the law, without engaging the argument that the law violates the Constitution he's paid to uphold in front of students, is a tidy bit of bureaucratic judo. It lets officials dodge the substance while the poster stays on the wall pending years of litigation. That's not a defense of the policy — it's a defense of the delay.

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