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Title: Priebus admits Trump has looked into changing the First Amendment
Source:
The Week
URL Source: http://theweek.com/speedreads/69569 ... -into-changing-first-amendment
Published: May 1, 2017
Author: Jeva Lange
Post Date: 2017-05-01 10:40:02 by Willie Green
Keywords: None
Views: 1445
Comments: 4
White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus admitted during a Sunday morning interview with ABC's Jonathan Karl that the Trump administration has "looked at" a constitutional amendment to free speech protections. Karl sought to clarify President Trump's tweet that "the failing New York Times has disgraced the media world. Gotten me wrong for two solid years. Change the libel laws?" "That would require, as I understand it, a constitutional amendment," Karl said. "Is he really going to pursue that? Is that something he wants to pursue?" "I think it's something we've looked at," Priebus replied in the affirmative. "How that gets executed, or whether that goes anywhere, is a different story." As Talking Points Memo notes, it was not a slip of the tongue — Priebus repeats that "this is something that is being looked at" later in the interview as well. "The changes President Trump wants are blocked by decades of jurisprudence which is little contested, unlike other hot button points of constitutional law," writes TPM's Josh Marshall. "If you want what Trump wants, you have to amend the Constitution — and not the Constitution in general but the First Amendment specifically. Amending the First Amendment to allow the head of state to sue people who say things he doesn't like amounts to abolishing it." Watch the clip below. Poster Comment: What goes around, comes around...
Dumbass Trump ain't rich enough to survive all the countersuits that would be filed against the wild, unsubstantiated allegations that HE's made.
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#1. To: Willie Green (#0)
What is the issue? He is right. When a company(The press is a company too) lies constantly about you even if you are the president you should have the right to sue them. Don't you think so?
If the King doesn't want his errors contradicted, then he picked the WRONG Republic to get corronated president in.
Watch the video its bull shit again from willie the progressive.
Yep. No need to change the first amendment. Simply ask the court to interpret it so as to protect public figures the same as everyone else. After all, it was the USSC which carved out the "public figure" exception to begin with.
#2. To: Willie Green (#0)
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#3. To: VxH (#2)
#4. To: Justified (#3)
"Watch the video its bull shit again from willie the progressive."
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