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Editorial: Supreme Court should not take up Louisiana’s provocative Ten Commandments law

From left, Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson speak during a news conference to discuss the presidential impeachment trial at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 22, 2020, in Washington, D.C..

In approving a law requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in classrooms, Louisiana has rekindled a culture war over the role of religion in public schools that should have been settled long ago.

Supporters of the law, and potential copycat proposals in other states, might hope that a U.S. Supreme Court that recently would ratify this statute and repudiate its own precedents. The court must

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