‘Queer Feminist Legal Analyst’ Is Suing President Trump Because He Blocked Her On Twitter

This is an Actual Lawsuit we’re going to have to follow.

Me in @FortuneMagazine. https://t.co/gmPs6HGfbO

— RebeccaBuckwalterPoz (@rpbp) July 14, 2017

“Queer feminist legal analyst” Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza is suing President Trump, because he (or someone who has access to his social media account) blocked her, and it’s hindering her ability to work as a “public intellectual.” (She certainly thinks highly of herself, huh?)

Most of my writing is about the Trump administration. In fact, my mandate from Pacific Standard is “Trump and the law.” On Twitter, the bulk of my recent follower growth and new relationships with others in the politico-legal sphere have come out of responding quickly when the president tweets and engaging the threads of conversation that flow from those tweets.

 

So when President Donald Trump blocked me in June, apparently for suggesting that Russia influenced the outcome of the 2016 election, he harmed me professionally. Even though I knew @realDonaldTrump was important to my career, it still took me at least a few days to recognize how being blocked by the president on Twitter would affect me as a public intellectual.

You hear that? Her career is essentially attached to President Trump’s tweets. She cannot manage without them. She must be able to troll him AT ALL TIMES. This is affecting her career, people.

It’s hilarious, isn’t it? Aren’t these the same people who constantly mock President Trump for tweeting? But when they suddenly don’t have direct access to his tweets on their personal account, they throw fits. (FYI, a blocked person can still access Trump’s tweets. Just log out of your account and voila! There they are!) But that solution isn’t good enough for Rebecca, because she wants to engage in conversation on the original tweets. Worst case scenario, she could always– idunno, make a new account? It’s not like she has millions of followers. Or she could log out and screenshot the tweets. There are ways to get around this.

She continues:

Every day I’m blocked I lose opportunities to advance my views and engage others’—literally the reason a reader follows a writer’s work, the substance a publication pays a writer for—in these conversations. I can’t fire off a 140-word tweet, create a thread, or share pieces I write to drive discussion within these very conversations . That quick click I thought was so inconsequential is constraining my career in ways I have yet to fully appreciate.

You hear that? It’s me playing the world’s tiniest violin.

It makes me wonder how journalists functioned before Twitter. I mean, Trump fires off a few tweets a day, and MSM obsesses over them, but shouldn’t journalists focus on other things?

Nope.

Twitter also brought me to where I am today: Pursuing a lawsuit with others against President Trump for his decision to block us on Twitter. It was because I tweeted about being blocked that I eventually connected with the Knight First Amendment Institute and became involved in the legal effort.

 

When it comes to Twitter, I thought my fights would be confined to threads and direct messages. It never occurred to me that I’d end up in court. I can’t say I’m glad I have, but I am proud to stand up for the right to free speech, which is essential to not only to individual people—and entire professions—but democracy. Each day my appreciation grows for the magnitude of what I am part of. How I respond to being excluded from the president’s Twitter may be more important than anything I’ve ever said on Twitter.

She actually believes this is violating her First Amendment rights. Wow.

At the end of the day, I honestly think this is a giant publicity stunt. Liberals looooooove playing the victim. Then again, they really are THAT deranged, so who knows.

I’m going to have to side with Jonah Goldberg on this one.

I am dumber for having read this. Be warned, you’ll feel your IQ evaporate off your brain like water on a hot skillet. https://t.co/pdQ1LOXUPq

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) July 14, 2017

A liberal journalist is suing the President of the United States over a Twitter block. 2017, everyone.

h/t Twitchy