A federal judge has rejected a proposed IRS settlement that would have allowed churches to endorse political candidates without risking their tax-exempt status, keeping a decades-old restriction firmly in place—for now.
In a ruling issued on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker in Tyler, Texas, said he lacked jurisdiction to approve the consent judgment between the Internal Revenue Service and two Texas churches, plus the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB). The judge cited the Tax Anti-Injunction Act, which prevents courts from ruling on matters that could directly affect tax collection.
The July settlement aimed to exempt routine religious communications from the Johnson Amendment, a 1954 tax code provision that bars nonprofits, both religious and secular, from endorsing political candidates.
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