The federal judge blocks the law of command of Texas Ten in public schools

A federal judge blocked a Texas bill on Wednesday, forcing public school classrooms to display the ten commandments, the last in a set of reverse for the red states seeking to introduce the religious text in schools.

Judge Fred Biery wrote in an order granting a preliminary injunction according to which the legislature led by the Republicans could not demonstrate a tradition of public schools displaying the ten commandments, which, according to him, was necessary for the bill to resist the previous ones.

“This court notes that there is not enough evidence of a large tradition in place at the time of the foundation and in the history of public education, to justify SB 10,” wrote Biery.

Biery, one appointed by Clinton, also said that the legislation was not sufficiently neutral on religion to be constitutional. The bill “takes up inadmissibly on theological questions and officially promotes Christian denominations on others,” wrote the judge.

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Families of numerous religious denominations, as well as non -religious complainants, brought legal action, arguing that the Texas bill imposed a religious preference on their children in violation of the first amendment.

Their trial followed the American Court of Appeal for the fifth circuit decided in June that a similar law in Louisiana was unconstitutional. Biery has partially based on this decision to justify hers. An Arkansas judge canceled another bill on the ten commandments in public schools this month.

The Supreme Court rejected the idea that public schools display religious texts in the classrooms of Stone v. Graham in 1980. This case was centered on a bill adopted by the government of Kentucky which required posters suspended from the ten commandments in public schools of public schools, which the High Court deemed the first amendment because it lacked end of speech.

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The United States Supreme Court was presented at twilight on June 28, 2023 in Washington, DC (Drew Angerer / Getty Images)

Biery observed that if the language of Texas legislation excluded religious ends, legislators have spoken on his intention. The judge gave several quotes from state legislators, including the main sponsor of the bill in the Senate.

“We want each child (from kindergarten) to twelve, every day, in each class in which they sit to look at the wall and read … These words … because we want them to understand how these declarations of God, these rules of God, see them in their class every day of their public education,” said the senator of the State Phil King, a republican.

This and many other statements cited by the judge have shown that legislators had a mainly religious objective when they adopted the bill, said Biery.

The monument of the ten commandments in Capitol in Austin on Wednesday June 25, 2025. (Jay Janner / Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images)

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The authors of the bill wrote in a press release accompanying the legislation according to which they wanted the religious directives to display on the walls of the school because they were an important part of history.

“Now that the legal landscape has changed, it is time for Texas to pass SB 10 and restore the history and tradition of the ten commandments of our State and our nation,” said legislators.