By BJC General Counsel Holly Hollman for TIME magazine
MSNBC’s AYMAN show
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi interviewed BJC Executive Director Amanda Tyler on June 1, 2024, for a segment on the AYMAN show about Christian nationalism in Texas and across the country.
The Johnson Amendment protects nonprofits from being entangled in electoral politics, and in turn it protects taxpayers from unwittingly providing tax exemptions to an agent of a political campaign.
Legal protections against the public funding of private and religious schools aren’t about limiting choice. They are about protecting the taxpayer and upholding our civic commitment to public education, where all students and parents know they belong.
The lawsuit alleges that officials failed to protect the right of Jewish students at UCLA to full access of university facilities during protests in the spring about the war in Gaza.