Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr said Wednesday he has joined a coalition of states in an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court supporting Bloomfield, New Mexico's right to display a Ten Commandments monument on its city hall lawn.

Carr said in a news release that he is signing on to the brief because cities and states need guidance on the law surrounding historical monuments.

A district judge ordered Bloomfield to remove the Ten Commandments monument, and the city appealed. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has upheld the judge's order to remove the monument on the basis that it violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, which prohibits the government from making any law “respecting an establishment of religion.”