Legal Opinion
Knight First Amendment Inst. at Columbia Univ. v. Trump
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 9, 2019No. 18-1691-cv; August Term 2018PublishedCited by 89 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARRINGTON D. PARKER, Circuit Judge:
*230 President Donald J. Trump appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Buchwald, J. ) concluding that he engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by utilizing Twitter's "blocking" function to limit certain users' access to his social media account, which is otherwise open to the public at large, because he disagrees with their speech. We hold that he engaged in such discrimination and, consequently, affirm the judgment below.
The salient issues in this case arise from the decision of the…
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