Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression.

Stone tablets depicting the Ten Commandments are shown outside the Supreme Court in Washington June 27, 2005, placed there during a vigil by a religious group. In Louisiana, Public school classrooms ...

Ever since I sued my local public school district, I keep getting asked: Why do I — a Baptist pastor, Jesus follower and American dad — want to prevent the Ten Commandments from being imposed on my ...

This story was previously published on June 27, 2025, and has been recirculated at the start of the school year. AUSTIN — A new law requiring displays of the Ten Commandments in every Texas public ...

As a former teacher and mother of six, I have spent years witnessing the downward shift in American classrooms, as they dropped from instilling wisdom to mere knowledge. Schools turned into ...