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Johnson Amendment
noun1 shorthand reference to a 1954 legal change that prohibited political activity by tax-exempt organizations governed under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, including churches and charities; named after Lyndon Johnson, then a senator from Texas, who championed the tax bill
Repealing or otherwise weakening the Johnson Amendment, at least for churches, was one of Trump’s top priorities, though, like many of his priorities, it did not come to pass.— Slate
The IRS investigated Johnson Amendment cases only a handful of times, including once against a New York church that purchased newspaper ads opposing the election of Bill Clinton in 1992 and once against a California church where a pastor preached an anti-war sermon in 2004 that specifically called out presidential candidates.— Religion News Service