Johnson Amendment Repeal All but Dead .

Republican lawmakers’ plans to repeal the Johnson Amendment, through the tax reform bill is all but dead after the Senate parliamentarian ruled Thursday that including the repeal in the tax plan violates Senate rules.

Since the tax plan is going through a process called reconciliation, the Senate needs only a simple majority of 51 votes to pass it. However, the Senate’s “Byrd Rule” requires that reconciliation bills can only include…