Julia Reihs | KUT News

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the Galveston Independent School District on Friday for its refusal to display the Ten Commandments inside of school classrooms.

Gov. Greg Abbott earlier this summer signed Senate Bill 10 into law, requiring every public school classroom in the state to include a poster with the Ten Commandments. Many Houston-area school districts’ elected boards of trustees have taken up votes to initiate the new requirements.

Following a civil rights lawsuit this year targeting 11 Texas school districts that posted the biblical posters in classrooms, a federal judge in August found the state’s new Ten Commandments law to be unconstitutional. A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments in the dispute next year.

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