Twitter Users Tell 2nd Circuit Trump’s Blocking Of Critics Violated 1st Amendment

Mealey's (October 15, 2018, 1:25 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — In an Oct. 12 appellee brief, a group of Twitter users and a free speech organization defend their position that President Donald J. Trump’s Twitter account is a public forum, asking the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to affirm a trial court’s finding that the president’s blocking of certain users due to their political views violated the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, et al., No. 18-1691, 2nd Cir.)....