Split 2nd Circuit Denies Trump Rehearing In Twitter 1st Amendment Suit

Mealey's (March 24, 2020, 4:41 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A majority of Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judges on March 23 voted to deny a petition for rehearing by President Donald J. Trump of a panel ruling that found that the president violated the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by blocking certain Twitter users from responding to his tweets, which the panel held constituted viewpoint discrimination on a public forum (Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, et al., No. 18-1691, 2nd Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 9025)....