Stephen Colbert Previews Trump’s Proposed Changes to the First Amendment – Slate Magazine (blog)
Category: First Amendment
There was plenty of Trump-related news for Stephen Colbert to get to on Tuesday night: the GOPs latest attempt to pass the American Health Care Act, that call with Vladimir Putin (You know things are bad when Putin is the voice of restraint), the rolling back of Michelle Obamas healthy school lunch program. But the biggest news for the Late Show host continued to be the presidents proud dismissal of the Constitutionin this case, the First Amendment.
They want to get rid of the First Amendment? Colbert asked, after playing a tape of Reince Priebus saying the administration was looking at changing national libel laws. Stop the presses! Seriously: Stop the presses. In fact, the Late Show exclusively revealed a draft of the administrations proposed change, and it was, lets say, quite Trumpian:
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Stephen Colbert Previews Trump's Proposed Changes to the First Amendment - Slate Magazine (blog)
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