TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Katharine Heriges on May 5, 2017
President Donald Trump signed an executive order yesterday to allow tax-exempt churches to more actively participate in politics, Reuters reports. The order does not erase the Johnson Amendment, which prohibited tax-free organizations from campaigning or supporting any one candidate for office, but rather directs the Internal Revenue Service to not enforce the law. The order also asks the government to issue rules to allow religious groups to deny their employees insurance coverage based on religious grounds, such as birth control pills.