Presidential Executive Order Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty
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On 2017-05-04, Donald Trump directed the Treasury Department, to the extent permitted by law, not to take adverse action against religious organizations for specified moral or political speech and directed three departments to consider amended regulations addressing conscience-based objections to the preventive-care mandate.
Sections 2–3Religious-liberty order led to contraceptive exemptions later upheld on agency authority · Implementing exemptions upheld by the Supreme Court in 2020; later coverage policy continued to change.
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On 2017-05-04, Donald Trump directed the Treasury Department, to the extent permitted by law, not to take adverse action against religious organizations for specified moral or political speech and directed three departments to consider amended regulations addressing conscience-based objections to the preventive-care mandate.
Sections 2–3Trump ordered tax-enforcement restraint for religious political speech and contraceptive-mandate changes · superseded evidence record