Trump To 2nd Circuit: Twitter User Blocking Does Not Violate 1st Amendment

Mealey's (August 10, 2018, 1:20 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — Appealing a trial court’s finding that Donald Trump’s blocking of users from his Twitter account violates their rights under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the president, in an Aug. 7 brief to the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, argues that blocking users from the president’s personal Twitter account constitutes an exercise of his free speech rights (Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, et al., No. 18-1691, 2nd Cir.)....