President Donald Trump is facing more legal woes for blocking people on Twitter despite a court order that he cannot do so
But according to the Knight Institute's new lawsuit, Trump has not unblocked users he had blocked before his inauguration. Users who couldn't identify which tweet prompted Trump to block them also remain blocked, the suit said.
"Defendants’ continued blocking of Individual Plaintiffs … violates their First Amendment rights," the Friday lawsuit said. "It unconstitutionally restricts their rights to read or participate in the discussion occurring in the public forum of the @realDonaldTrump account." Trump was ordered to unblock Twitter users in the 2018 decision on the grounds that cutting people off from important policy announcements for things they tweeted was a violation of their free speech. In contesting the decision, the Justice Departmentthat Trump's Twitter account is not owned by the government and he is free to exclude whomever he liked on his private account, the existence of which predates his presidency.
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