Spicer Confirms White House Actively Planning Attack on Press Freedoms
White House press secretary Sean Spicer confirmed Monday that the Trump administration is actively—and in his words "substantively"—reviewing the nation's libel laws as it explores ways it could more easily sidestep First Amendment protections by targeting press coverage or news stories it deems objectionable.
On Sunday morning, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus told ABC's "This Week" that reworking libel law legislation is "something that we've looked at, and how that gets executed or whether that goes anywhere is a different story."