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Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter by zaroth on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @04:28PM (#17137940)
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 (#17138188)
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 (#17138072)
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 (#17138178)
He had not been elected yet. The moment he did, things changed.
Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter by zaroth on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @05:14PM (#17138363)
Certainly he continues to remove hecklers from his campaign events. The distinction is a campaign event isn’t a “public forum”.