POLITICS/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: "President Trump vowed on Thursday to overturn a law restricting political speech by tax-exempt churches, a potentially huge victory for the religious right and a gesture to evangelicals, a voting bloc he attracted to his campaign by promising to free up their pulpits.
Mr. Trump said his administration would 'totally destroy' the Johnson Amendment, a 1954 law that prohibits churches from endorsing or opposing political candidates at the risk of losing their tax-exempt status."
– “Trump Vows to ‘Destroy’ Law Banning Political Endorsements by Churches,” The New York Times online, Feb. 2, 2017, Mark Landler and Laurie Goodstein, 2/2/2017