Free Speech

A federal court just dismissed the most significant legal challenge in decades to the Johnson Amendment – the unconstitutional law that has been used by the IRS to silence pastors for 70 years. But the court didn’t rule on the merits. It never ruled that the Johnson Amendment is constitutional or that the government has the right to gag churches. Instead, it sidestepped the issue on a tax procedural technicality to avoid the question entirely – . . .