The Supreme Court is being asked to review a legal challenge to Texas’s Ten Commandments requirement.
Texas has ordered that a copy of the Ten Commandments be hung in every classroom, which was immediately challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), representing multiple faith groups. While a similar law in Arkansas was ultimately ruled unconstitutional, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit maintained that Texas can require elementary and secondary school classrooms to display the Commandments.
“As a rabbi and parent, forcing a Christian version of the Ten Commandments on children in every classroom is particularly upsetting,” said Jewish Houston parent Joshua Fixler.
The ACLU argued that allowing the state to mandate the display creates a conflict with precedents.
“In doing so, it not only decided these cases in a way that conflicts with this Court’s precedents but also deepened confusion among the lower courts over how this Court’s Establishment Clause jurisprudence applies,” they wrote in their letter to SCOTUS, urging the high court to take up the case.
The Supreme Court agrees to hear a small number of cases, dismissing the rest, and will likely hear the ACLU’s argument next fall before making its decision.
X users reacted:
Leftists crying over Texas putting the Ten Commandments in public schools is hilarious. Rebuilding moral standards in our classrooms is how we save our country!
— @AmericaWithTrump (@USA_Patriot_GOP) August 18, 2026
Apparently that Jew doesn’t believe in “Judeo-Christian” values after all.
— News Watchdog (@anewswatchdog) August 18, 2026
The Founders would be appalled by this blatant disrespect for the tenets of the Constitution.
— Jlo (@Judy_Scott) August 18, 2026
Ten commandments bad
Rainbow flag goodDemocrats.
— Gen X Slacker 🇺🇲 (@JLS1776) August 17, 2026
We have so many things facing our fellow Americans right now. I won’t be distracted by this bull shit.
— Kelly (@OhMyNotAgain99) August 18, 2026
I have no problem with the requirement to show the commandments in schools
I DO have a problem with it being enforced.
I DO have a problem with the person/ people who demanded the commandments to be enforced, have BROKEN each commandment themselves!!!!!! Which they have 😡
— Eg keller (@keller_eg12870) August 17, 2026
The establishment clause should automatically make the Supreme Court force Texas to remove this requirement however the birth right citizenship vote shows that the Majority Republican Supreme Court thinks of the Constitution as only a suggestion. https://t.co/XnD9UKOhz4
— Artemio (@temioarredondo) August 17, 2026
How can this be constitutional? There isn’t even one version of the Ten Commandments. https://t.co/PWN1Jxu2U6
— Daniel Greenbaum (@dgreenbaum225) August 18, 2026
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