Sotheby's workers hold the stone tablet of the Ten Commandments that is scheduled for auction. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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A copy of the Ten Commandments is seen along with other historical documents in a hallway of the Georgia Capitol on June 20 in Atlanta. Civil liberties groups filed a lawsuit on June 24 challenging Louisiana’s new law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom. John Bazemore/AP hide caption
The Satanic Temple unveils its statue of Baphomet, a winged-goat creature, at a rally in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday. The group wants to install the statue on Capitol grounds because a monument of the Ten Commandments was placed there in 2017. Hannah Grabenstein/AP hide caption
Workers used a crane to install a Ten Commandments monument Thursday outside the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock. Jill Zeman Bleed/AP hide caption
The 300-pound sphinx is the second recovered from the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes. Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center/AP hide caption
Staff at the Secretary of State's Office inspect the damage to the new Ten Commandments monument outside the state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., on Wednesday morning. Police say a car crashed into it less than 24 hours after it was installed. Jill Zeman Bleed/AP hide caption
A six-foot-tall privately funded Ten Commandments monument on the Arkansas Capitol grounds in Little Rock today. Andrew DeMillo/AP hide caption
The Ten Commandments monument that used be at the state Capitol in Oklahoma City. Sue Ogrocki/AP hide caption