Kentucky, 17 Other States Back Louisiana’s 10 Commandments Law

Kentucky, joined by 17 conservative-leaning states, said that the Fifth Circuit should apply history to determine whether Louisiana’s Ten Commandments in public schools display requirement is constitutional, rather than a case the Bluegrass state said it “remembers all too well.”

The Supreme Court once said that Kentucky’s public school display requirement violated the US Constitution’s Establishment Clause. But Kentucky said that conclusion—from the 1980 case Stone v. Graham—relied on a test that the high court now disfavors, state Attorney General Russell Coleman (R) said Tuesday in an amicus brief joined by 17 other states and filed to the US ...