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For years, far-right churches have openly violated the Johnson Amendment – a law meant to block all nonprofits, including churches, from endorsing or opposing candidates.
Instead of enforcing the law, Trump’s DOJ and IRS are working directly with these churches to break it – letting them funnel millions of dollars to campaign for extremist candidates without oversight or accountability.
And beyond our very real concerns about unlimited money in politics, Trump or future presidents could use the precedent he’s setting here to quietly wipe out any laws they don’t like.
But here’s the good news, we’re fighting back – we just went to court to block a deal Trump made with these groups that’d endanger not only these common sense safeguards against Big Money, but the separation of church and state itself.
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