President Donald Trump Tries to Take Twitter Blocking Case to Supreme Court

The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University issued a sharp response

President Donald Trump is seeking a U.S. Supreme Court Review of a lower court decision on whether blocking critics from his Twitter account is constitutional, and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University is not happy.

The Knight Institute filed a lawsuit against Trump in 2018, and U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York judge Naomi Reice Buchwald ruled in May of that year that Trump’s blocking of Twitter users with differing political viewpoints was a violation

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