Byron York's Daily Memo: Justice Thomas: Sooner or later, courts will rule on Twitter
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JUSTICE THOMAS: SOONER OR LATER, COURTS WILL RULE ON TWITTER. It started as one of those ridiculous controversies of the Trump era. In May and June 2017, then-President Donald Trump blocked a few Twitter trolls who were criticizing his tweets. The next month, those trolls, backed by Columbia University's Knight First Amendment Institute, sued the president, alleging that blocking them on Twitter violated the First Amendment.
The key question was whether Trump's 89-million-follower Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, was an official public space, where Trump would be subject to accusations he violated his followers' First Amendment right to respond to him, or whether it was a private space where Trump could do what he wanted.