Trump Evades First Amendment Suit Over Social Media Order
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A D.C. federal judge found the Center for Democracy & Technology doesn t have standing to sue.
The Center for Democracy & Technology doesn t have standing to sue President Donald Trump over his executive order that targets social media sites for the alleged censorship of conservative voices, a D.C. federal judge has ruled.
The CDT in June sued the Trump administration over his May 28 executive order on online censorship. Trump s order, which he issued shortly after Twitter started flagging his tweets for misinformation, says social media is the modern day equivalent of a public square and it s fundamentally un-American and anti-democratic to let powerful social media companies censor opinions.