A federal judge said Arkansas was part of a "coordinated strategy" by some states to increase Christian influence in public schools.

A new Arkansas law requiring public classrooms to display the Ten Commandments can't be enforced in a handful of the state's largest school districts, a federal judge ruled Monday.

A federal judge has blocked Arkansas from implementing a new law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public-school classrooms. In issuing the Aug. 4 preliminary injunction, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Brooks described Arkansas Act 573 as “plainly unconstitutional” under