Constitutional Law

Trump Administration Contemplating Constitutional Amendment

The Trump White House doesn't have much respect for the founding documents.

Reince Priebus (Photo by John Moore/Getty)

Reince Priebus (Photo by John Moore/Getty)

I think it’s something that we’ve looked at. How that gets executed or whether that goes anywhere is a different story… I said this is something that is being looked at. But it’s something that as far as how it gets executed, where we go with it, that’s another issue.

— Reince Priebus, White House Chief of Staff, sharing the Trump administration’s potential future plan when asked on ABC’s This Week if the president was considering amending or repealing the First Amendment in response to media criticism. President Trump was also on Fox News this weekend calling the constitutional system of checks and balances “archaic” and “really a bad thing for the country.”