La. attorney general to issue guidance on Ten Commandments law
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill says her office will issue guidance on a law that would require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms statewide.
The state has been blocked from putting the law into effect in five school districts — Livingston, St. Tammany, Vernon, East Baton Rouge and Orleans —by U.S. District Judge John deGravelles on Nov. 12, who deemed it “unconstitutional on its face.”
That injunction was held up on Nov. 20 by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
Oral arguments in the case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court are set for Jan. 23.
In a thread on X, formerly known as Twitter, Murrill said “H.B. 71 requires Louisiana classrooms to reflect certain displays of the Ten Commandments as students return from winter break. This week, I will publish guidance to schools on how to comply – in a constitutionally sound manner – with H.B. 71, including specific displays that citizens may print & donate to their schools.”
The Republican AG also said that the other school districts are not bound by the litigation.
DeGravelles compared Louisiana’s law to a Kentucky law struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in Stone v. Graham.