‘I can’t wait to be sued’ Gov. brags over Ten Commandments bill – Rights groups to oblige

A bill claiming the Bible's Ten Commandments are “foundational documents of our state and national government" was signed into law Wednesday by Louisiana Republican Governor Jeff Landry. "More than two dozen Republican attorneys general are voicing their disapproval over the Department of Education’s proposed priorities for teaching K-12 students about American history and civics education because they would include references to systemic racism and how the history of slavery has shaped the U.S." the Louisiana Illuminator reported in 2021. "The state attorneys general argue in a May 19 letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona that public schools should not be given grant funds to teach about critical race theory, 'including any projects that characterize the United States as irredeemably racist or founded on principles of racism or that purport to ascribe character traits, values, privileges, status, or beliefs, or that assign fault, blame, or bias, to a particular race or to an individual because of his or her race.' Mississippi Free Press news editor Ashton Pittman, responding to a report on Louisiana's new Ten Commandments law remarked, "Christian nationalist theocrats doing what they do when they have power.