New White House Brief: Trump’s Twitter Account is Beyond Reach of Constitution

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Joly MacFie <joly () punkcast com>
> Date: October 14, 2017 at 3:43:08 PM EDT
> To: dave <dave () farber net>
> Subject: New White House Brief: Trump’s Twitter Account is Beyond Reach of Constitution
> Reply-To: joly () punkcast com
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> (via Michael Robertson / Pho)
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> New White House Brief: Trump’s Twitter Account is Beyond Reach of Constitution
> https://knightcolumbia.org/news/new-white-house-brief-trumps-twitter-account-beyond-reach-constitution
>
> October 14, 2017
>
> The White House filed its opening brief late last night in a lawsuit
> by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
> challenging President Trump's practice of blocking Twitter users who
> have criticized him or his policies.
>
> Regarding the White House’s claim of presidential immunity, Jameel
> Jaffer, Knight Institute Executive Director, said:
>
> “The White House's claim that the court lacks authority to enjoin the
> president is wrong, and if it were accepted its implications would be
> far-reaching and intolerable. The president isn't above the law. The
> government's claim to the contrary is based on an overbroad reading of
> cases that involved very different factual contexts as well as
> executive interests far more weighty than the ones at issue here.”
>
> Regarding the White House’s First Amendment claims, Katie Fallow,
> Knight Institute Senior Staff Attorney, said:
>
> "President Trump's Twitter account is a designated public forum under
> the First Amendment, and the president violates the Constitution when
> he blocks people from this forum simply because they've criticized
> him. Notably, the government doesn't contest that the president is
> blocking our clients because of their viewpoints. The government's
> contention that @realDonaldTrump is a personal account is not
> defensible given that the president routinely uses it for official
> purposes and both the president and his aides have publicly described
> the account as official."
>
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