Further, Newdow claims that the phrase constitutes an unconstitutional religious test and creates an anti-atheist, pro-Christian bias. The conservative blog Red State branded the claim as ludicrous and legally flawed, and should be thrown out of court. In 2004, the ACLJ filed an amicus brief at the Supreme Court on behalf of 68 Members of Congress and more than 260,000 Americans to successfully fend off a similar legal challenge that sought to remove the phrase "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance.
Christian Today reports that in his blog post, Newdon wrote that there is no compelling reason for the government to put "In God We trust" in U.S. coins and currency bills. Newdon feels confident that the lawsuit will prosper under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) because he claims that the Supreme Court Justices involved in past RFRA cases would agreed with his contention.
Newdow`s lawsuit is a revival of a case he filed and lost in 2010 when the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that the phrase "I God We Trust" in U.S. coins and currencies is does not violate the United States constitution.
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