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U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks permanently blocked Arkansas Act 1006 on March 18, 2026, which had required the Ten Commandments to be posted in every public school classroom and library. Brooks ruled the law violated the First Amendment Establishment Clause, writing that nothing justified hanging the Ten Commandments in a calculus or chemistry class. The ACLU of Arkansas brought the suit on behalf of six school districts. Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced plans to appeal.

Arkansas education officials said high schools could not offer state credit for AP African American Studies, citing uncertainty after Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders' order targeting critical race theory and indoctrination. The decision limited access to a college-level Black studies course in public schools.

President Donald Trump retweets three inflammatory anti-Muslim videos on November 29, 2017, posted by Jayda Fransen, deputy leader of Britain First — a fringe British ultranationalist group whose rallies number in the hundreds. The videos, shared with Trump's 44 million Twitter followers, are captioned "Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches!," "Muslim destroys a statue of Virgin Mary!," and "Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death!" At least one video is immediately debunked: the Netherlands Embassy confirms the perpetrator in that video is a Dutch citizen, not a Muslim migrant. UK Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman states it is "wrong for the president to have done this," calling Britain First a group that spreads "hateful narratives which peddle lies and stoke tensions." It is the first time a sitting U.S. president has amplified the content of a convicted hate-crime offender to a global audience. Fransen had been convicted of religiously aggravated harassment for abusing a woman wearing a hijab.

On November 29, 2017, President Trump retweets three anti-Muslim videos posted by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, a British far-right ultranationalist group whose leader had been convicted of religiously aggravated harassment. The videos are captioned "Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches!", "Muslim Destroys a Statue of Virgin Mary!" and "Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death!" The Netherlands Embassy in the United States publicly notes that the "Muslim migrant" in the first video was born and raised in the Netherlands and was not an immigrant. British Prime Minister Theresa May issues a statement: "It is wrong for the President to have done this." Fransen responds: "GOD BLESS YOU TRUMP! GOD BLESS AMERICA!" The White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defends the retweets, saying: "Whether it's a real video, the threat is real."