The federal judge temporarily blocks the Arkansas Ten Commandments class law

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!
A federal judge temporarily prevented certain districts of the Arkansas from showing the ten commandments in their classrooms, as required by a new law of the state.
The injunction of the American district district judge Timothy Brooks – a nominated by former president Barack Obama – has an impact on four districts in the northwest of Arkansas and comes in response to a trial brought by a coalition of multi -fans families which argued that the requirement of violent religious display their religious freedom and their parental rights. The law can now only come into force when new judicial measures are not taken, according to Kuar.
“Why would Arkansas adopt a manifestly unconstitutional law?” Brooks wrote in its 35 -page decision. “Most likely because the state is part of a coordinated strategy between several states to inject Christian religious doctrine into public schools.”
“Law 573 is not neutral with regard to religion”, was also cited by Kuar As saying, noting that the law on the ten commandments “requires that a specific version of this writing be used, that which the essential proof shows in this case is associated with Protestantism and is the exclusion of other confessions”.
The families of the Arkansas continue to keep 10 commandments outside the classroom before the new law takes effect

A federal judge temporarily blocked certain public school districts of Arkansas to display the ten commandments in classrooms. (Michael Smith / Getty Images)
The Arkansas law, signed earlier this year by the Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, takes effect on Tuesday and demands that the ten commandments be displayed in classrooms and public school libraries. The trial against him was filed on behalf of the families by the civil American Liberties Union, the United Americans for the separation of the Church and the State and the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
The Attorney General Tim Griffin, whose office defended the law, told the Associated Press that he examined the decision and evaluated legal options.
The trial has appointed four school districts in northwestern Arkansas – Fayetteville, Bentonville, Siloam Springs and Springdale – as defendants.
The complainants asked for a preliminary injunction to suspend the implementation of the law while the trial is underway, according to ACLU.
“Permanently publishing the ten commandments in each class and library – making them inevitable – unconstitutionally press the students in religious observance, the veneration and the adoption of the privileged religious writings of the State,” said the trial.
The federal judge takes advantage of a temporary prohibition order on the Mississippi dei Ban

The Governor of Arkansas, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, attends an event on preparing for natural disasters with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on June 10, 2025 in Washington, DC, the Arkansas Ten command law, also known as law 573, was signed earlier this year. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)
“It also sends the harmful and religiously dividing message that students who do not subscribe to the ten commandments – or, more specifically, to the specific version of the ten commandments that law 573 requires that schools display – do not belong to their own school community and press them to refrain from expressing religious practices or beliefs that are not aligned with religious preferences of the state.”
Brooks’ decision is justly applied to four of the 237 state districts. It is not immediately clear if the groups that have deposited the trial would require a broader block of the law beyond the four districts.
ACLU Executive Director of ACLU, Holly Bailey, told AP through a spokesperson that “he clearly appears from this order and the long-established law that everyone should refrain from publishing” the ten commandments in public school classrooms.
Similar requirements promulgated in Texas and Louisiana are also disputed in court. A group of families and religious leaders brought legal action aimed at blocking the requirements of Texas after its promotion.

A tablet 6 feet high of the ten commandments is located on the ground of Texas Capitol Building in Austin, Texas. (Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc / Corbis via Getty Images)
Click here to obtain the Fox News app
Last month in Louisiana – The first state which forced the ten commandments must be displayed in classrooms – a panel of three appeal judges judged that the law was unconstitutional.
Kristine Parks of Fox News and the Associated Press contributed to this report.