Encryption: Trump administration adopts Obama administration's stance

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POLITICO: Trump officials weigh encryption crackdown

Senior officials debated whether to ask Congress to effectively outlaw end-to-end encryption, which scrambles data so that only its sender and recipient can read it, these people told POLITICO. Tech companies like Apple, Google and Facebook have increasingly built end-to-end encryption into their products and software in recent years — billing it as a privacy and security feature but frustrating authorities investigating terrorism, drug trafficking and child pornography.

“The two paths were to either put out a statement or a general position on encryption, and [say] that they would continue to work on a solution, or to ask Congress for legislation,” said one of the people.

I know some people think the Constitution is an impediment to doing what they want to do when in power (and they're probably right - the Constitution was designed to protect The People from such abuses), but could somebody please explain the First Amendment to them anyway?