Kyle Duncan

Today we are immensely grateful to have with us three federal judges who will be presenting their perspectives as jurists at this event.

And after we open up with a prayer, I'll introduce our moderator, who is Judge Kyle Duncan, who will conduct today's panel discussion with Judges Josh Divine and Judge Lindsey Freeman.

Uh, after this event, I encourage you to check out our website at cit.catholic.edu where you can find out, uh, more about what we're up to, uh, here at CIT.

So with that, I'll let us start as we always do with our on-campus CIT events, uh, with a prayer.

Amen.

Amen.

So I'm, uh, honored today to introduce our moderator for this event, who is Judge Kyle Duncan.

Uh, he's a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Sure.

You used the example in March of 23 at Stanford Law School, the Fifth Circuit judge, Kyle Duncan, you tell the story of him being shouted down by students.

I'll call it, you know, incivility, right? They're just not allowing a discussion to be had.

The event is obviously cut short, as you note, He responds from the podium, Duncan, says, quote, in this school, the inmates have gotten control of the asylum, end quote.

Three other states, Alabama, Arkansas, and Louisiana, have recently enacted laws requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments.

In his opinion, upholding the Texas law, Judge Kyle Duncan, a Trump appointee, said his court was entitled to ignore the 1980 precedent because the Supreme Court had undermined it when it abandoned a 1971 decision, Lemon v. Kutzman, in a 2022 ruling about a praying football coach, Kennedy v. Bremerton School District.

That sounds complicated because it is, but here are two things to know.

Neither of those decisions had anything to say about the Kentucky case or the Ten Commandments.