Is It Really Illegal for Trump to Block People on Twitter Now?: New at Reason

The First Amendment prohibits President Trump from using his personal Twitter account to block critics, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled today.

U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald, a Clinton appointee, said that Trump’s occasional use of Twitter’s blocking feature violates his critics’ rights to free speech. “The blocking of the individual plaintiffs as a result of the political views they have expressed is impermissible under the First Amendment,” Buchwald wrote.

It’s a somewhat bizarre decision, writes Declan McCullagh.

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