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A federal judge temporarily blocks some Arkansas areas Ten Commandments As required by NSW law.
Former President Barack Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks affects four districts in the Northwest Arkansas and respond to lawsuits filed by the Multifaith Family Alliance, who believe that the religious display claims violated their religious freedom and the rights of their parents. Cour said the law will not take effect now until further court proceedings are taken.
“Why did Arkansas pass an apparently unconstitutional law?” Brooks wrote in his 35-page ruling. “It is likely because the state is part of a coordinated strategy for several states to inject Christian religious theory into public school classrooms.”
“Bill 573 is not religiously neutral.” Quart As stated, pointing out that the Ten Commandments Law “requires the use of a specific version of the verse, in which case the undisputed evidence suggests that it is related to Protestantism and is an exclusion of other beliefs.”
Arkansas Family Prosecution Turns 10 Commandments Out Before New Law Goes in Implementation

A federal judge temporarily blocked some public school districts in Arkansas and was unable to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. (Michael Smith/Getty Images)
Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, signed earlier this year, took effect Tuesday, requiring the Ten Commandments to be highlighted in public school classrooms and libraries. The Americans Americans Americans filed a lawsuit against it on behalf of the family, united to separate the church from the country and to free from religious foundations.
Attorney General Tim Griffin’s office defended the law, told the Associated Press that he was reviewing the decision and evaluating the legal option.
The lawsuit is named four school districts in four northwest Arkansas school districts (Fayetteville, Bentonville, Siloam Springs and Springdale).
The plaintiffs requested a preliminary injunction to suspend the implementation of the pending law, the ACLU said.
The lawsuit says: “The Ten Commandments are permanently issued in every classroom and library – making it inevitable that, in unconstitutional circumstances, subject students to religious observation, worship and adoption of religious verses that are favored by the state.”
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Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders participated in a natural disaster preparation event in Washington, D.C. on June 10, 2025 with President Donald Trump in the White House’s Oval Office, the Ten Commandments Law of Arkansas, also known as Bill 573, signed by the governor earlier this year. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
“It also conveys a harmful and religious division of the message that students who disapprove of the Ten Commandments—or rather, a specific version of the Ten Commandments that Article 573 requires schools to manifest, does not belong to their own school community, nor does it belong to their religious preferences that do not conform to any belief or belief.”
Brooks’ ruling Applicable only to four of the 237 districts in the state. It is unclear whether the groups filing the lawsuit will seek broader laws outside the four districts.
“It is obvious from this order and the long-standing law that all should avoid issuing the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms,” ACLU, Arkansas executive director Holly Bailey, told the Associated Press through a spokesperson.
Similar requirements set by Texas and Louisiana are also challenged by the court. A group of family and faith leaders filed a lawsuit trying to block Texas’ demands within days of signing the law.

There is a 6-foot tablet in the Ten Commandments located on the ground of the Texas Capitol building in Austin, Texas. (Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Corbis via Getty Images)
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Last month in Louisiana, the first state to demand the display of the Ten Commandments in classrooms, a panel of three appeal judges ruled that the law was unconstitutional.
Fox News’ Christine Park and the Associated Press contributed to the report.