Texas Ten Commandments Law Heads for Major Court Showdown!

The legal stakes just got higher for the Texas Ten Commandments law. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit agreed this week to hear the Texas case—Nathan v. Alamo Heights Independent School District—en banc (that is, with the full panel of active judges) and will review it together with a similar challenge from Louisiana under that state’s Ten Commandments‐display requirement. 

The en banc scheduling bypasses the usual three-judge panel and pushes the issue directly before the full court—reflecting the high national stakes of the issue. Oral arguments are set for January 2026. In practical terms, this means that Texas’s law to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms is not stalled or in limbo where school districts can ignore or delay implementation—it is now headed toward a major appellate showdown which could uphold the constitutionality of the law as the U.S. Supreme Court clearly allowed in Kennedy v. Bremerton.

Currently, the law is in effect statewide, but 11 school districts received an injunction from a federal district court to hold off on posting the Ten Commandments in classrooms until the resolution of litigation.

Purchase posters and find out more about the Texas Ten Commandments Law here.