Back in July of last year, Jameel Jaffer, Katherine Fallow, and Alex Abdo filed a complaint in the Southern District of New York in a case titled Knight First Amendment Institute v. Trump. The suit contended that President Trump and his communications team violated the First Amendment by blocking seven people from the @realDonaldTrump Twitter account because they criticized the president or his policies.
In an op-ed in today’s Daily News, Floyd Abrams wrote: “There are aspects [of the case] that are complex. But the core of the ruling is plain. A President who uses Twitter to pronounce many of his most critical decisions and defend them to the public cannot avoid his critics or deprive them of the chance to respond in the same place and at the same time as do his supporters. Judge Buchwald’s opinion is a powerful one that sends a powerful First Amendment message.”
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- Christina Zhao, Trump Ignores Court Ruling That He Can’t Block Twitter Critics, Newsweek, May 24, 2018 (12:45 pm)