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Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jul 11, 2017
A group of Twitter users blocked by President Donald Trump sued him as well as two White House aides today, arguing that his account is a public forum that he cannot bar citizens entry from, The New York Times reports. By blocking people from reading his feed, which the suit calls a “digital town hall,” the president is in violation of the plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights to express views he does not like. Trump, press secretary Sean Spicer and director of social media Dan Scavino are named as defendants in the suit, which was filed in a federal court in New York.