AG Paxton Leads 23-State Coalition in Amicus Brief Defending Displays of the Ten Commandments

AG Paxton Leads 23-State Coalition in Amicus Brief Defending Displays of the Ten Commandments 

Ken Paxton

AUSTIN – Leading a 23-state coalition, Attorney General Ken Paxton today filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Bloomfield, New Mexico’s Ten Commandments monument on its city hall lawn. In February, a divided 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to reconsider a three-judge panel’s decision upholding a district court’s order to remove the monument. “The Supreme Court has ruled that a passive monument such as a Ten Commandments display, […]