From WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Friday, June 21st.

Our guest, who's been good enough to be on SCOTUS standby for us all this month,

Aziz Hook, Professor of Law at the University of Chicago.

He's also the author of the forthcoming book, The Rule of Law, a very short introduction.

Professor Hook, ongoing.

Thanks for your availability and wisdom, and welcome back to WNYC.

Thank you for having me again, Brian.

And, you know, before the Supreme Court has the chance to dictate our topics for this

segment, can I get your take on something else in the news today?

I think my producer told you I was going to ask that may eventually reach the Supreme

Court, the state of Louisiana, as you know, just enacted a law that requires all public schools

and any school that gets state funding, as I understand it, so that might even include some

private schools, to post the Ten Commandments in every school classroom. Here's a tiny clip of the

governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, at the signing ceremony this week.

If you want to respect the rule of law, you've got to start from the original lawgiver,

which was Moses.

See, he stole your book title, the rule of law.

The ACLU already says it will challenge this in court on First Amendment grounds,

First Amendment where it says

the government shall not establish any religion. So Professor Huck, do you see this as an open

and shut case, as a lot of our listeners probably do, or a more legally complicated one?

There is a 1980 ruling from the Supreme Court holding that states are not permitted

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