(RNS) — In a New York Times opinion piece last month, esteemed legal scholar and American University law professor Benjamin Leff made the case that the gutting of the so-called Johnson Amendment ...

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Churches are now able to endorse political candidates after a court filing against a decades-long rule. While it may be the first time some have heard about the rule that prohibits churches and ...

In a court filing this week, the Internal Revenue Service indicated that, under most circumstances, it would not revoke a church's tax-exempt status if it violated the Johnson Amendment, a 1954 law ...

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, July 9, hailed and welcomed a recent move by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) stating that houses of worship can endorse political candidates without risking ...

Christian nationalism-embracing media figures cheered the IRS’ statement that the Johnson Amendment — a decades-old ban on tax-exempt nonprofits engaging in politics — should not apply to churches, ...

For years, conservative legal groups have argued that an IRS rule barring churches from endorsing candidates was unconstitutional. Now the IRS agrees. In a court filing, the IRS said the-so called ...

A federal judge in Texas has ruled that a prominent group defending the separation of church and state can't take an active role in a case involving political endorsements during sermons. Americans ...

Last week, the Family Research Council’s longtime president Tony Perkins exulted over the win the Trump administration delivered to the Christian right: “Churches will now be unshackled,” he declared.

In his address to the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Trump vowed to "get rid of and totally destroy the Johnson Amendment and allow our representatives of faith to speak freely and ...

Churches and other houses of worship can endorse political candidates without risking the loss of their tax-exempt status, the Internal Revenue Service said in a legal document the tax-collection ...