In a 75-page defense of crazy judicial overreach, a federal court held on Wednesday that President Trump (and anyone else with administrative permissions to his @realDonaldTrump Twitter account) cannot block other individual Twitter users, even though Twitter’s user options clearly allow it.
At first blush, the rationale seems to make some legitimate and persuasive arguments. Because the @realDonaldTrump account is under government personnel control, and the White House conceded in this case that statements made on Twitter constitute official presidential statements, then his Twitter feed should be properly analyzed under the “public forum” doctrines.
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