Former President Donald Trump seemingly endorsed the idea of placing the Ten Commandments in both public and private schools on Friday after Louisiana Republican Governor Jeff Landry signed a bill into law earlier this week requiring them to be displayed in every public school classroom in that state.

Landry said of the legislation, “If you want to respect the rule of law, you’ve got to start from the original law giver, which was Moses.” He added that the law would “help bring common sense back to our classrooms.” Without specifically mentioning Louisiana or its new law, Trump said that the display of the Ten Commandments in schools “and many other places” would lead to the “revival of religion” in the U.S.

“I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, AND MANY OTHER PLACES, FOR THAT MATTER,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday morning. “READ IT — HOW CAN WE, AS A NATION, GO WRONG??? THIS MAY BE, IN FACT, THE FIRST MAJOR STEP IN THE REVIVAL OF RELIGION, WHICH IS DESPERATELY NEEDED, IN OUR COUNTRY. BRING BACK TTC!!! MAGA2024.”

The new Louisiana law also requires a context statement to be displayed along with the Ten Commandments, which explains the Ten Commandment’s importance in American public education.

“Around the year 1688, The New England Primer became the first published American textbook and was the equivalent of a first grade reader. The New England Primer was used in public schools throughout the United States for more than one hundred fifty years to teach Americans to read and contained more than forty questions about the Ten Commandments,” the context statement says in part.

Critics of the Louisiana law, including the American Civil Liberties Union, quickly condemned it as “unconstitutional” and vowed to mount a legal challenge against the Republican-led state. Last week, however, Landry said he’s ready to be sued after signing the bill into law.

Louisiana Republican state Rep. Dodie Horton, who sponsored the bill, said the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms is necessary to fight back against the “junk” that children are being taught, The New York Times reported.

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“Given all the junk our children are exposed to in classrooms today, it is imperative that we put the Ten Commandments back in a prominent position,” she said, adding, “It doesn’t preach a certain religion, but it definitely shows what a moral code we all should live by is.”

The Internal Revenue Service is examining improper claims businesses have made for the Employee Retention Credit (ERC) a refundable tax credit for certain eligible businesses and tax-exempt organizations were affected during the COVID-19 pandemic. The ERC expired in 2021.

Claims filed after mid-September 2023 have been blocked from being processed by a moratorium.

“In coming weeks, the IRS plans to deny tens of thousands of claims that had shown the greatest risk of being improper, the agency said,” The Wall Street Journal reported, adding, “Pop-up firms and marketers created a mini-industry that encouraged a flood of claims long after the pandemic’s emergency-phase ended—many of which the IRS has said are questionable.”

The Journal noted that the government has doled out roughly $230 billion for the program.

“The IRS remains deeply concerned about how many taxpayers have been misled and deluded by promoters into thinking they’re eligible for a big payday,” IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel stated. “People may think they are on safe ground, but many are simply not eligible under the law.”

The GOP-led House of Representatives, attempting to save an estimated $80 billion, voted in January to end the ERC for claims filed after Jan. 31, 2024, but the Democrat-led Senate has blocked the move.

By mid-May, unprocessed ERC claims had reached 1.4 million by mid-May; 880,000 were filed before the moratorium, according to the government.

Last month Stenson Tamaddon, a Phoenix-based tax advisory firm and provider of ERC services, sued the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the United States of America, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel, and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

“Stenson Tamaddon alleges that the IRS violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) by enacting legislative rules without following proper procedures, specifically concerning ‘Notice 2021-20,’” the company stated. “This notice significantly restricted the availability of Employee Retention Credit (ERC) payouts by narrowing the eligibility criteria.”

“We believe that the IRS has overstepped its authority and failed to follow proper procedures, resulting in unfair restrictions on businesses entitled to the Employee Retention Credit,” CEO Eric Stenson said. “Our goal is to ensure that these businesses receive the support they deserve, this litigation is a last resort.” He added. “Our position remains that there is no broad authority in the Internal Revenue Code or any corresponding tax regulation that allows the IRS to stop processing an entire class of tax returns. I wish they would have given us more information about these risk markers they were using. The IRS needs to be more transparent and should provide clear, detailed criteria as to what constitutes a high-risk claim.”