Supreme Court Urged To Preserve Ruling Against Trump Over Twitter Blocks

The Supreme Court should leave in place a lower court's ruling that former President Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking critics on Twitter, a free speech advocacy group argues.

“The public interest in preventing impermissible viewpoint discrimination in government-operated social media accounts weighs heavily in favor of keeping the Second Circuit’s judgment in place,” the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University argues in papers filed Thursday.

The papers come in response to arguments filed by the Department of Justice on the last full day of Trump's presidency.