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After Utrecht [a Department of Justice lawyer] compared Trump’s personal account to that of any private individual, [judge] Parker interrupted: “You are here because he is not a private individual.”

“This case requires us to consider whether a public official may, consistent with the First Amendment, ‘block’ a person from his Twitter account in response to the political views that person has expressed, and whether the analysis differs because that public official is the president of the United States,” U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald wrote in May.

“The answer to both questions is no,” Buchwald’s 75-page opinion concluded.

https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-ever-tweeting-makes-curious-case-for-privacy/