Most of us would welcome being blocked from the US President’s tweets.
But the seven users – who have all criticised the President online, labelling him a #fakeleader among other things – say he is violating their First Amendment rights by preventing them from reading and replying to tweets from his @realDonaldTrump account, according to New York Magazine.
Their argument? That Trump’s Twitter account is a public forum and blocking them is the equivalent of barring them from a council meeting.
To tweet or not to tweet?
The group have lodged the lawsuit in New York’s Federal Court in a bid to get their blocking overturned and prevent Trump from blocking anyone in the future.
The Knight Institute, which is representing the seven individuals, claim that the President has turned his personal account into an official one by making government announcements to his 33 million followers with it.
It’s backed by a statement from Trump’s own Press Secretary Sean Spicer who said last month: “The president is the president of the United States, so they’re considered official statements by the president of the United States.”
Of course, with news now in that the Democrats have moved to impeach Trump, this lawsuit may be the last of his worries.
