Updates | The Week of May 1, 2017
Take Care // 5/7/17 //
President Trump signed an executive order entitled "Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty" (NYT).
- The executive order is available here.
- Ira Lupu and Robert Tuttle republished their analysis for Take Care of a leaked draft of President Trump’s “religious liberty" order, dated to roughly six weeks ago.
- Jason Harrow explains how the President mischaracterized both the current law and his own executive order in his remarks at today’s signing (Take Care).
- Marty Lederman examines the so-called Johnson Amendment, the provision that bars 501(c)(3) nonprofits from engaging in political activity (Take Care).
- In a separate Take Care post, Marty argues the executive order actually does very little.
- Undermining the so-called Johnson Amendment that bars 501(c)(3) nonprofits from engaging in political activity is more about money than political speech, argues Dahlia Lithwick (Slate).
- Jessica Mason Pieklo and Christine Grimaldi likewise note that the order is about campaign contributions and argue that the order is an attempt to appease religious extremists (Rewire).
- David French argues that the executive order may undermine legislative and judicial responses to the Johnson Amendment and amounts to “dangerous nothingness” (National Review).
- Emma Green explains why the executive order left many conservatives dissatisfied (The Atlantic).
- Dan Lamothe debunks a claim President Trump made at the signing relating to soldiers’ access to religious materials (WaPo).