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A federal judge has ruled that President Trump cannot block users on Twitter. Stop and think about how crazy it is that this actually sucked up time and resources in the courts.
GOODNESS.
Manhattan Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald said that it’s unconstitutional for Trump to block users. It violates their First Amendment rights, apparently.
“While we must recognize, and are sensitive to, the President’s personal First Amendment rights, he cannot exercise those rights in a way that infringes the corresponding First Amendment rights of those who have criticized him,” Buchwald wrote.
The government had argued that blocked individuals could still access the president’s tweets. The judge agreed but said that even considering the president’s First Amendment rights, preventing users from interacting directly with him on Twitter represented a violation of a “real, albeit narrow, slice of speech.”
The case had been brought by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.
So she says Trump’s Twitter is a public forum, but Twitter is a private entity so…does her argument actually apply here?
Federal district court judge in New York says Trump cannot block Twitter users over their political views on his @realDonaldTrump account in a fascinating decision that deals with the frontiers of digital public speech. pic.twitter.com/8xPXuzZ2s9
— Byron Tau (@ByronTau) May 23, 2018
BREAKING: Federal judge says President Donald Trump cannot block his critics on Twitter without violating the First Amendment.
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 23, 2018
Breaking –>>>
*TRUMP CAN'T BLOCK USERS FROM HIS TWITTER FEED, JUDGE RULES
*TRUMP'S FEED IS A 'PUBLIC FORUM,' FEDERAL JUDGE IN N.Y. SAYS
*JUDGE SAYS TRUMP BLOCKING USERS VIOLATES FIRST AMENDMENT@BobVanVoris
— David S. Joachim (@davidjoachim) May 23, 2018
JUST IN: Federal judge rules that President Trump’s Twitter account cannot block individuals for political views they have expressed. – @Tom_Winter pic.twitter.com/SzixrdyWO0
— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 23, 2018
You can read her full take here.
Your take? And goooooo.
