Supreme Court’s Religious Crusade Found Soldiers: Noah Feldman

A new law in Louisiana requires every public school classroom to display the Ten Commandments. Similar laws are under consideration in Texas and Utah, as well as Oklahoma, where the state superintendent of education has ordered that the Bible be taught in all classes from fifth grade to 12th grade. In Ohio, kids are being bused from their public elementary schools to religious classes, then back to school, all during the school day.

Wait, you say. Don’t these initiatives violate the establishment clause of the First Amendment of the US Constitution — the bit that’s supposed to keep church and state ...