Ten Commandments cannot go up in Louisiana classrooms yet, as governor claims biblical poster could have stopped would-be Trump assassin

FILE - Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry talks to reporters outside the Supreme Court, Jan. 7, 2022, in Washington. Louisiana Gov.-elect Jeff Landry, a Republican endorsed by former President Donald Trump and known for his conservative positions on issues like abortion, is being inaugurated Sunday afternoon, Jan. 7, 2024 on the steps of the state Capitol (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File). Inset: A copy of the Ten Commandments hangs in the Alabama Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., Thursday, June 20, 2024. The wooden plaque hangs next to a display titled "The Foundation of Our Law" that also includes information about the Magna Carta and the Mayflower Compact. The display sits in a room that housed the Alabama Supreme Court library between 1885 and 1940 and is now used for historical displays (AP Photo/Kim Chandler).

FILE – Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry talks to reporters outside the Supreme Court, Jan. 7, 2022, in Washington (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File). Inset: A copy of the Ten Commandments hangs in the Alabama Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., Thursday, June 20, 2024 (AP Photo/Kim Chandler).

A controversial new law in Louisiana requiring schools to have a poster of the Ten Commandments in every classroom will not be in effect when students return next month, giving a federal judge time to weigh the constitutionality of the measure.

U.S. District Court Judge for the Middle District of Louisiana John deGravelles on Friday approved an agreement reached between the plaintiff parents and civil rights organizations challenging the constitutionality of the law and the defendants, Louisiana State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley and the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, documents reviewed by Law&Crime show.

While the law didn’t make posting the biblical writing mandatory until Jan. 1, 2025, under the terms of the agreement, “no Defendant will post the Ten Commandments in any public-school classroom before November 15, 2024.”

Additionally, the defendants agreed that prior to Nov. 15, they will not “promulgate advice, rules, or regulations” regarding proper implementation of the law.

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