Legal fight shaping up over Ten Commandments in Louisiana classrooms

A court battle is looming after Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed a bill into law requiring all public schools post the Ten Commandments in every classroom.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is previewing her defense of the measure.

"The 10 Commandments are pretty simple (don’t kill, steal, cheat on your wife), but they also are important to our country’s foundations," the A.G. said in a statement. "I look forward to defending the law."

Americans United for Separation of Church and State President and CEO Rachel Laser says this is an illegal effort to indoctrinate or convert students.

"We are witnessing widespread white Christian nationalism across this country, the imposition of one narrow set of religious views on all of us. Something that the government is forbidden from doing by the First Amendment of our Constitution," she insisted.

Murrill says the highest court in the country gives a nod to the commandments in the chamber where the case may well end up.

"Moses, who you may recall brought the 10 Commandments down from Mount Sinai, appears eight times in carvings that ring the United States Supreme Court Great Hall ceiling."

Similar efforts have been struck down in the past.