Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit in a Texas state trial court against the Galveston School District and its board members seeking to order them to display copies of the Ten Commandments in every classroom as mandated by Texas law. The complaint (full text) in State of Texas v. Galveston Independent School District, (TX Dist. Ct. filed 11/7/2025) reads in part:
Defendants are openly violating the law in Texas. In order to prevent irreparable harm to the State of Texas’s interests and to bring Defendants back into the bounds of the law, the State of Texas requests temporary and permanent injunctive relief from this Court.
In August 2025, a Texas federal district court enjoined eleven school districts from complying with the Texas statute that requires posting of the Ten Commandments in classrooms. (See prior posting.) The Galveston district is not one of those eleven. Attorney General Paxton has directed school districts that were not defendants in that case to comply with the display requirement. (See prior posting).
Friendly Atheist blog discusses the lawsuit.
