Federal Judge Blasts Republicans For Trying To Pass 'Obviously Unconstitutional' Law

The Arkansas law would require the state's public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every single classroom.

A federal judge on Monday called out Republican-led states for attempting to inject Christianity into public schools, claiming they had a “coordinated strategy” to push through “unconstitutional” laws.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) in April signed legislation that would require the state’s public schools to display the Ten Commandments from the Christian Bible in every single classroom. A group of parents promptly sued their school districts, saying the law was a clear violation of the Constitution, which prohibits the government from establishing a religion.

On Monday, Judge Timothy Brooks issued a preliminary injunction blocking the implementation of the law in several districts in Arkansas.

“Why would Arkansas pass an obviously unconstitutional law? Most likely because the State is part of a coordinated strategy among several states to inject Christian religious doctrine into public-school classrooms,” Brooks said in the ruling.

GOP-led states, encouraged by a conservative-leaning Supreme Court, are passing laws that would force religion into the classroom. Legal experts suspect their goal is to get one of the cases in front of the high court in order to undo decades of precedent that bars religion in public schools.