In a 3-0 decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Washington, DC, ruled that the National Motto, “In God We Trust,” is constitutional and does not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Quoting the 1970 decision in Aronow v. United States, the Court wrote: “It is quite obvious that the national motto and slogan on coinage and currency ‘In God We Trust’ has nothing whatsoever to do with the establishment of religion.”

Mathew Staver, Founder of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law, commented: “The National Motto, ‘In God We Trust,’ is obviously constitutional. The First Amendment was never meant to erase from history references to God or public acknowledgments of God.”

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Source: Liberty Counsel (7.28.10)

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