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Whoever holds the job in the long term will almost certainly be expected to carry out Trump’s retribution campaign with more success, said Jimmy Gurule, a former Justice Department official and law professor at Notre Dame. “If she was fired because Trump did not think that she was moving quickly enough in bringing criminal cases against his political enemies, then you would expect that the person that would replace her would probably agree to escalate those efforts,” Gurule said.

The evening earlier, on March 19, Alito attended a separate dinner in Washington, DC, celebrating Notre Dame law professor Sherif Girgis, who had received the Edwin Meese Originalism Award from the Meese Institute for the Rule of Law within the Mike Pence-founded organization of Advancing American Freedom. Girgis, also a former Alito clerk, appeared the next day at the March 20 symposium.

Lloyd Mayer, a professor at the University of Notre Dame Law 91ÊÓÆµ, said the settlement may spur the IRS to continue making exceptions for churches to support or oppose candidates from the lectern. The recent ruling should sustain the Johnson Amendment’s “chilling effect” on pastors, even though IRS enforcement has been rare under the Trump, Biden, and Obama administrations.

By Alexander Kustov, an associate professor of global affairs at the University of Notre Dame and the author of  and the newsletter.  

Brad Badertscher, Professor of Accountancy, University of Notre Dame

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in these articles do not necessarily reflect those of the University.

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