One Nation, Under God

On March 11, 2010, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals filed opinions in two separate cases that considered whether government-sponsored references to God violated the Establishment Clause of the United States Constitution. One was a challenge to the use of the phrase "In God We Trust" on United States currency. The other was a challenge to the inclusion of the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. In both cases, the court found that the references to God did not violate the...