{"id":260198,"date":"2026-04-21T22:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/260198\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T22:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:41:12","slug":"fifth-circuit-upholds-texas-ten-commandments-school-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/260198\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Circuit upholds Texas Ten Commandments school law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A federal appeals court upheld a Texas law requiring public schools across the state to display the Ten Commandments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals came after Texas Republican-led legislature passed the law.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/texas-commandments.jpg\" alt=\"Ten Commandments, TX capitol\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>A federal appeals court ruling on Feb. 20 allows Louisiana\u2019s Ten Commandments classroom mandate to proceed for now. (Jay Janner\/Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is one of the most important religious liberty victories for Texas in our glorious history,&#8221; said Jonathan Saenz, president and attorney for Texas Values, which defended the law. &#8220;Texas continues to lead the nation in defending both religious liberty and constitutional truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today\u2019s ruling confirms that our state can honor the moral heritage that undergirds our legal system without violating the First Amendment,&#8221; he added. &#8220;This decision makes clear that acknowledging the historical foundations of our laws is not only permissible \u2014 it is fully consistent with the Constitution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This story is breaking. Please check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal appeals court upheld a Texas law requiring public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7619,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-260198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-federal-courts","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}