Federal judge temporarily blocks Arkansas Ten Commandments classroom law

A temporary federal judge temporarily prevented some Arkansas provinces temporarily from presenting the ten commandments in their classroom as required under the new state law.

The Zarbian order from the American boycott judge, Timothy Bruks-is appointed to former president Barack Obama-in four regions in the northwest of Arkansas and comes in response to a lawsuit filed by an alliance of multi-religions families that argued that the requirements of the religious presentation violate their religious freedom and parents’ rights. The law cannot enter into force until other measures are taken, according to Kawar.

“Why is Arkansas pass by a clear unconstitutional law?” Brooks wrote in his 35 -page ruling. “Most likely, the state is part of a coordinated strategy between several states to pump the Christian religious faith into the classroom of the public.”

“Law 573 is not neutral in relation to religion,” Kawar reported that he said, noting that the Ten Commandments Law “requires that a specific copy of this Bible be used, which shows the uninterrupted evidence in this issue that it is linked to Protestantism and an exception to other religions.”

Arkansas’s families lead them to keep 10 commandments outside the semester before the new law applies

The Arkansas Law, which was signed earlier this year by Republican ruler Sarah Hakabi Sanders, is applied on Tuesday and requires a prominent view of the tenth commandments in classrooms and libraries in public schools. The lawsuit filed against it was filed on behalf of the families by the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Americans are united to separate the church, the state and the religion institution from religion.

Prosecutor Tim Griffin, who defended his law on the law, told the Associated Press that he was reviewing the decision and evaluating legal options.

The lawsuit was named four school areas in northwest of Arkansas – Weaitville, Bentonville, Silloam Springs, Sprinchille – as defendants.

Prosecutors were asking a preliminary order to stop the implementation of the law while the lawsuit was pending, according to the US Civil Liberties Union.

“The publication of the ten commandments permanently in each semester and library – which makes them unavoidable – presses unconstitutional students in religious celebration, imagination, and the adoption of the preferred religious Bible of the state,” and mentioned the lawsuit.

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Arkansas, Sarah Hakabi Sanders, is attending an event on the natural preparation of disasters with President Donald Trump at the White House in the White House on June 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Ten Commandments Law in Arkansas, also known as Law 573, was signed earlier this year. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“He also sends a harmful and religiously harmful message that students who do not share the ten commandments – or, specifically, to the specific version of the ten commandments that require law 573 to appear schools – do not belong to their school community and their pressure to refrain from expressing any religious practices or beliefs that are not compatible with the religious preference of the state.”

Brox’s rule does not apply a little difference to four province of 237 in the state. It is not immediately clear whether the groups that filed the lawsuit will seek to obtain a broader block of the law outside the four regions.

ACLU of CEO of Arkasas Holly Billy told AP through a spokesman “It is clear from this matter and the law that has long been created for everyone to refrain from spreading” the ten wills in the classes of public schools.

Similar requirements that have been enacted in Texas and Louisiana are also challenged in court. A group of families and faith leaders filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent Texas requirements days after they were signed by the law.

6 feet high -feet a ten -will disk is located on the ground of the Texas Capitol building in Austin, Texas. (Robert Daemmrich Photography Inc/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Last month in Louisiana – the first mandate to impose the ten commandments to be presented in the classroom – a committee of three judges ruled that the law is unconstitutional.

Fox News’ Kristine Parks and Associated Press contributed to this report.