Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, with Martin ...

The IRS recently announced it would no longer enforce the Johnson Amendment. The amendment, passed in 1954, bears the name of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, ...

Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the ...

Wednesday will mark the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a landmark piece of legislation that was signed ...

P roposed by then-Senator Lyndon Johnson, the amendment entered the Internal Revenue Code as a provision of law in 1954. It says that charitable organizations may be exempt from federal taxes if ...

In 1954, Texas Sen. Lyndon Johnson proposed an amendment to the Internal Revenue Code that has strangled the free speech and religious liberty of churches and the pastors who lead them ever since.

The move effectively calls for a carve out for religious organizations from the rarely used IRS rule called the Johnson Amendment, put in place in 1954 and named after then-Senator Lyndon Johnson.

As historian Randall Balmer notes in a forthcoming book on church-state separation, while up for reelection in 1954, Senator Lyndon Johnson faced fierce “McCarthy-like attacks” from right-wing ...

P roposed by then-Senator Lyndon Johnson, the amendment entered the Internal Revenue Code as a provision of law in 1954. It says that charitable organizations may be exempt from federal taxes if ...