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The agency's agreement in a court filing formally reverses a decades-old provision of the tax code, but the motion would need ...
This is not about turning churches into political machines It s about restoring the Church s rightful place as the nation s ...
Lynda Bird Johnson Robb recalls how the Texas camp shaped her childhood.
The IRS announced churches can endorse political candidates through an exemption in the Johnson Amendment. The announcement ...
With this move, the Trump administration is advancing its own political interests by crudely reinterpreting — effectively ignoring — a law passed by Congress in 1954. White House spokesperson Taylor ...
Camp Mystic has deep roots with Texas politicians, including former first lady Laura Bush, who worked as a counselor there, ...
The Johnson Amendment has never been strictly enforced by the IRS, meaning that religious leaders have long endorsed politicians.
The Internal Revenue Service makes a potentially landmark policy shift: churches can endorse political candidates from the pulpit.
Lyndon B. Johnson became president after JFK was assassinated. In the White House, he passed bills prohibiting discrimination, but the ongoing Vietnam War created controversy during his presidency.
On July 14th, 1965, then President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Older Americans Act (OAA) into law, which helps provide ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.
When President Lyndon B. Johnson stopped in Portland for a campaign visit 60 years ago Saturday, throngs of supporters filled the streets from the airport to City Hall.