there would be no trouble. As it happens, some pastors have openly flouted this regulation for years, all but begging the IRS to come after them. The government has done exactly nothing in response. Jeffress knows this better than most. Numerous high-profile churches in Texas, including several in the Dallas area, are notorious for their brazen defiance of the Johnson Amendment. (The Texas Tribune has reported on this extensively.) Not only was the Biden administration not coming after churches; the Biden administration was actively looking the other way as churches broke the law.
