RELIGION/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump promised last week that he would ‘totally destroy’ the Johnson Amendment, a 1954 provision of the tax code that allows the Internal Revenue Service to police the speech of churches and other nonprofits. But Congress doesn’t have to repeal the amendment to make good on Mr. Trump’s pledge. The Free Speech Fairness Act, introduced in the House and Senate the day before the president made his remarks, fixes the law’s constitutional problems.”
– Erik Stanley, “How to Fix the Johnson Amendment,” The Wall Street Journal online, Feb. 9, 2017