Legal Opinion
Knight First Amendment Inst. At Columbia Univ. v. Trump
District Court, S.D. Illinois
Decided May 23, 2018No. 17 Civ. 5205 (NRB)PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NAOMI REICE BUCHWALD, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
This case requires us to consider whether a public official may, consistent with the First Amendment, "block" a person from his Twitter account in response to the political views that person has expressed, and whether the analysis differs because that public official is the President of the United States. The answer to both questions is no.
Our analysis proceeds as follows. We first set forth the background facts regarding Twitter as a platform, the @realDonaldTrump account that is the center of this dispute, the plaintiffs, and this case's…
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