The bill would require the Ten Commandments be posted in each classroom in South Dakota's public schools. But it could face legal challenges.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to review a culture war dispute over the opening of the nation's first publicly funded religious charter school in Oklahoma. The state's top court had previously invalidated the school for violating the First Amendment's establishment clause.
A three-judge panel in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans heard arguments about a new Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms.
The justices said Friday they would review an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision that invalidated a state board's approval of an application by the Catholic Church in Oklahoma to open a charter school.