Federal court rules Arkansas law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms is unconstitutional

Arkansas lawmakers passed a bill requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every school classroom. A blatant if well-trodden violation of the U.S. constitution's separation between church and state, the law was blocked yesterday in federal court. From the preliminary injunction:

This case begins and ends with Stone, a Supreme Court decision from 1980 that analyzed a law almost identical to the one before this Court and found that it violated the Establishment Clause.

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