Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter
by daveguy on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @04:22PM
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Before Twitter came along the president didn't have the legal ability to prevent you from criticizing him in any other venue either.
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Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter
by zaroth on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @04:28PM
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Trump removed plenty of hecklers from his campaign events.
Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter
by dragonwriter on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @04:56PM
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Campaign events are generally not public forums, even if the candidate happens to also be an incumbent public official. For a federal official (and similar laws exist for state government), if the nexus with official government affairs required to make a public forum existed with a campaign event, that’d probably violate the Hatch Act separately from whether any violation of public forum law occurred.
Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter
by daveguy on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @04:42PM
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Good point. If critical tweets kept him from giving his message then I expect the judge would have ruled differently.
Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter
by enraged_camel on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @04:55PM
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He had not been elected yet. The moment he did, things changed.