In October 2023, the American Center for Law and Justice said it was pursuing records from the Internal Revenue Service following a dispute involving the tax-exempt application of Christians Engaged. The organization reported that its records request and litigation had identified large numbers of potentially responsive pages containing religious terms, including references to prayer and the Word of God. The page counts describe documents identified in a search; they do not by themselves demonstrate that the IRS was targeting Christians. The dispute raised questions about how federal tax authorities assess religious organizations and respond to public-records requests.
