Safeguarding Our Religious Liberties Act

H.R. 3190, the Safeguarding Our Religious Liberties Act, seeks to affirm the rights of states and local governments to display the Ten Commandments and recite the Pledge of Allegiance and the national motto on public property. The bill formally defines the Pledge of Allegiance to include the phrase "one Nation under God" and the national motto as "In God we trust." Additionally, it would restrict lower federal courts from hearing legal challenges regarding the display of the Ten Commandments or the use of the word "God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. For citizens, this would mean that local decisions to include these religious references in public spaces or schools would be protected from most federal lawsuits.