Twitter Users Blocked by Trump File Lawsuit
They included arguments that Mr. Trump was imposing an unconstitutional restriction on the plaintiffs’ ability to participate in a designated public forum, get access to statements the government had otherwise made available to the public
and petition the government for “redress of grievances.”
Filed in Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York, the lawsuit also names Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary,
and Dan Scavino, Mr. Trump’s director of social media, as defendants.
“The @realDonaldTrump account is a kind of digital town hall in which the president
and his aides use the tweet function to communicate news and information to the public, and members of the public use the reply function to respond to the president and his aides and exchange views with one another,” the lawsuit said.
By blocking people from reading his tweets, or from viewing
and replying to message chains based on them, Mr. Trump is violating their First Amendment rights because they expressed views he did not like, the lawsuit argued.