Reince Priebus is a dunderhead (and he can't sue me for saying so) - by Erik Wemple

[DonViejo]

The courts have interpreted the First Amendment so as to allow the Erik Wemple Blog to call people names. “Defamatory statements are those that harm a person’s reputation and are clearly more than insults,” writes David Schultz in the “Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court.” So it’s perfectly legal to state:

Reince Priebus is a dunderhead.
Reince Priebus is a lunkhead.
Reince Priebus is a ninny.
Reince Priebus is a dunderpate.
Reince Priebus is a birdbrain.

Grounds for all those statements come from an " target="_blank">interview between Priebus, President Trump’s chief of staff, and Jonathan Karl of ABC News.

Asked about candidate Trump’s pledge to “open up” libel laws, Priebus indicated that it’s “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.” Another fantasyland issue, that is. For a president who cannot wrangle a premier campaign issue — replacing Obamacare — through the legislative process, changing libel jurisprudence would pose a challenge that journalists would enjoy documenting. Surely Trump would declare at some point: “Nobody knew the separation of powers could be so complicated.” Which is to say, Priebus, Trump & Co. can’t just write an executive order to adjust libel laws.

Although this group of dunderheads might give it a try.

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[Warpy]

1. Oh, they'll try, just to see if they can get away with it

along with EOs restricting the parts of the First Amendment they don't like so Dolt45 can drift through the rest of his presidency without ever being troubled by criticism.

Yeah, they'll issue all the Royal Proclamations they want and then be slapped down by both Congress and the courts because no one branch of government is that powerful, not even when the same political party controls them all.

It won't slow them down, of course, because they're always looking for the easy way out and they'll always hope we'll just get tired and allow their bullshit to stand.

Eventually Demented Don will get sick of all these people interfering with his bigly superior plans and he'll quit.