Political operative David Barton held up a thick Bible with years of wear on its dark brown cover and proclaimed its pages ...

Perry. The question was whether a monument inscribed with the Ten Commandments that had stood on the grounds of the Texas state capitol since 1961 violated the First Amendment.

Stone tablets depicting the Ten Commandments are shown outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 27, 2005, placed there during a vigil by a religious group.

When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was serving as his state's attorney general in 2005, he appeared before the Supreme Court to argue Van Orden v. Perry. The question was whether a monument inscribed ...