Trump is waging a legal war against press freedom

There’s been much hand-wringing over President-elect Trump’s promises to use the massive power of the Justice Department and the FBI to undertake revenge prosecutions against his perceived political enemies — a frightening prospect, because criminal scrutiny can land people in jail even if they’ve done nothing wrong.

But civil claims can also be serious business. And Trump has been busily suing the press, flagging another possible casualty of his next administration: the First Amendment.