State laws requiring the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms keep losing in court, but that won't matter if they win at the highest court in the land.

Outside advocates believe supporters of laws in Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas are actively trying to get the cases before the Supreme Court. In the meantime, however, those supporters are consistently suffering legal losses, including in some of the most conservative courts in the country.

Lawsuits have challenged the laws, which use similar language to mandate posters of the Ten Commandments, on the grounds that they violate students' and parents' First Amendment rights. But supporters believe this is a Supreme Court that will see them differently.

“I don't think anybody is surprised that these policies, these laws in the states that seek to put the Ten Commandments back in schools, have been challenged in court. They're making their way through the proper channels, and we still are very confident that at the end of the day, when these cases get to the Supreme Court, that they're going to uphold them based on the new history-and-tradition test,” said Matt Krause, of counsel with the First Liberty........

© The Hill