Siding with the Knight First Amendment Institute in a lawsuit against Trump and his communications team, U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in New York concluded that blocking people on Twitter violated their First Amendment rights. Trump was engaging in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by blocking critics in a “public forum,” the court ruled. Last July, for example, he used the social media outlet to reveal his plans to ban transgender people from serving in the U.S. armed forces. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of seven Twitter users whom Trump blocked on the platform. “We must assume that the President and Scavino will remedy the blocking we have held to be unconstitutional,” she wrote.

Source: Huffington Post May 23, 2018 18:55 UTC