Overview
- Attorney General Todd Rokita and Governor Mike Braun filed a motion to lift a decades-old federal injunction, with the request now pending in court.
- The filing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana seeks to vacate a 2000 order that barred installation as unconstitutional.
- Officials point to shifts in Establishment Clause jurisprudence, including a decision permitting a Ten Commandments display at the Texas Capitol, to argue the ban is outdated.
- The monument bears the Ten Commandments on one side, the Bill of Rights on the other, and the Preamble to the Indiana Constitution on its ends.
- If the injunction is lifted, the stone would move from Bedford to the Statehouse grounds, following an earlier marker’s decades on the lawn before 1991 vandalism and Kentucky’s recent reinstall.