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. The Court already discussed why Kennedy v. Bremerton School District sought to root out the Lemon test's undesirable effect of "singl[ing] out private religious speech for special disfavor." 597 U.S. at 514. But Kennedy did not overrule any public-school Establishment Clause cases involving a state's or school distric