Authorities in two states are looking into a nonprofit led by an attorney to Donald Trump, after the Guardian reported it had steered tens of millions of dollars to the attorney, his family and their businesses.

Josh Stein, the attorney general of North Carolina, and Eric Schneiderman, the attorney general of New York, said on Wednesday they would be examining the operations of Jay Sekulow's group Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism (Case).

Stein said in a statement: "The reports I've read are troubling. My office is looking into this matter." [...]

WHO: Jay Alan Sekulow is a leading legal advocate for the Religious Right. The organization Sekulow heads, the ACLJ (American Center for Law and Justice), was founded by TV preacher Pat Robertson to counter the American Civil Liberties Union and lower the wall of separation between church and state. Celebrating one courtroom win, Sekulow gushed, "Yes, the so-called 'wall of separation' between church and state has begun to crumble!"

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Michael "Mikey" Weinstein, founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, and his family have a long tradition of service in the United States armed forces.  However, Weinstein is now waging a different kind of war. With support at the very highest levels, evangelical groups within the military believe that, serving your country requires  the priorities of the military personnel to be, in the words of the Officer's Christian Fellowship: "a spiritually transformed US Military" literally "with ambassadors for Christ in uniform" and " empowered by the Holy Spirit." [...]