State Attorney General Liz Murrill is filing a brief against the lawsuit filed against the state’s Ten Commandments law requiring a poster of the biblical text to be posted in all public-school classrooms. Murrill says the high-profile case is being handled internally through her solicitor general.
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Loyola University Law Professor Dane Ciolino says it’s a political move by the Governor and the State Attorney General for the Ten Commandments law to go before the now extremely conservative US Supreme Court.
After the law was signed in June, lawsuits were filed, and a federal judge ruled classrooms could not display the Ten Commandments until at least November 15th.
A public affairs research official says he just doesn’t understand some of the reasons why Governor Jeff Landry’s office withholds certain records from the public. Mel Bridges has the story.
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