Submitted by Jonathan Sėmpel
(Reuters) -Federal Appeal on Friday blocked Louisian a law requiring ten orders in all state schools and university classes.
By calling the law a “clearly unconstitutional”, the 5th US Regional Court of Appeal’s New Orleans unanimously followed the New Orleans 2024. November By a ruling, which was decided by a lower court judge, which required the enforcement of the law.
This is a victory for parents and students who accused Louisian of their religious rights trench, and defeat to Republicans and conservative groups trying to express the expression of faith in society.
The Court of Appeal is widely considered among the most conservative in the country, although two judges were appointed by the Democratic Presidents on Friday’s Commission.
According to the announcements published, Louisiana Republican Attorney General Liz Murrill will ask the entire Court of Appeal and perhaps eventually the US Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, to review the case.
The Murrill office did not immediately respond to the requests to comment.
Nine families, including several clergymen, went to court to block laws with children in public schools, saying that this had violated the first amendment, the ban on the state to establish a religion.
“We are grateful for this decision, which honors religious diversity and religious-Freedoma rights to families of public schools throughout Louisiana,” said the plaintiffs, who is the Uniti Universalist Minister, who with his Jewish man Adrian Van Young.
Louisiana’s law requires that ten orders, which are at least 11 inches to 14 inches, posters or framed versions, and the orders are “central attention” and printed in a large, easy -to -read font.
The law signed by the Republican Governor Jeff Landry includes K-12 schools and state-funded colleges and was scheduled to enter into force on 1 January.
Kentucky’s precedent
On Friday’s judgment, District Judge Irma Carrillo Ramirez cites the 1980s. The Supreme Court ruling, Stone v. Graham, which rejected the Kentucky law, which requires similar demonstrations of ten orders because it did not “have a” worldwide purpose of legislation. “
Louisiana said the stone’s decision was no longer applied because he was relied on by the precedent, which the Supreme Court refused.
It is also said that even if the stone was applied, the Louisiana case differed, as schools could submit ten orders with documents such as the Declaration of Independence, reflecting the secular “historical and education” goal.
Ramirez, a departure of democratic president Joe Biden, nevertheless mentioned several lawmakers expressing the basis of religion -based Louisiana laws. It included that ten orders were “God’s law,” and that opponents took an “attack” against Christianity.
“If the copies of the ten orders have been influenced at all, it will encourage students to read, meditate, perhaps respect and obey, orders,” Ramirez wrote, quoting a stone solution. “This is not a permissible purpose of the state.”
Ramirez also rejected Louisiana’s argument that the Supreme Court of 2022 A decision to support the football coach of the Washington State Secondary School, who prayed with the players on the 50 Jard line, needed ten orders after the games.
She said it was partly because the Washington case was primarily related to the first amendment provisions governing the free language and the free implementation of religion.
Louisiana was the first US state to show ten orders because the Kentucky law was demolished.
The case is in Roake and others. BRUMLEY et al., 5th US District Court, no. 24-30706.
(Jonathan’s Esopel Report in New York; Edited by Leslie Adler)