Bad road to start down. So then why do Democratic politicians like Ocasio-Cortez get to block people?
Via PJ Media:
A U.S. federal appeals court says President Donald Trump can’t block critics from reading and responding to his Twitter account — his personal Twitter account.
NBC News, which omitted that relevant fact until the tenth paragraph, summed up the court’s opinion:
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan upheld a lower court judge who said Trump violates the Constitution when he blocks critics.
“The irony in all of this is that we write at a time in the history of this nation when the conduct of our government and its officials is subject to wide-open, robust debate,” Circuit Judge Barrington D. Parker wrote on behalf of a three-judge panel.
The debate generates a “level of passion and intensity the likes of which have rarely been seen,” the court’s decision read.
Trump actually has two Twitter accounts. The first, and best known, is @realDonaldTrump. Then there’s the official @POTUS feed, which was originally owned by Barack Obama, and transferred to Trump on the day of his inauguration. @realDonaldTrump has nearly 62 million followers, while @POTUS enjoys a “mere” 26 million. @POTUS comes, courtesy of Twitter, with the highest office in the land, and will transfer to Trump’s successor. Trump launched @realDonaldTrump as a private citizen, and he’ll keep it for as long as he likes. Or until Twitter decides to ban him, just as they’ve banned many other conservatives for reasons unknown.