Federal appeals court rules Trump can't block people on Twitter

On Tuesday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a previous ruling that President Trump violated the First Amendment rights of Twitter critics when he blocked them.

The new ruling upheld a May 2018 decision that was the result of a lawsuit filed by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University on behalf of seven plaintiffs that Trump had blocked on Twitter.

Judge Barrington D. Parker wrote in the opinion:

The opinion also impressively lays out how Trump and the White House have gone to great lengths to declare Trump's @realdonaldtrump account as "official."  Read more...