Bloomberg Law
July 14, 2017, 8:49 PM UTC

Trump’s Twitter Account Is ‘Unique’, Says Floyd Abrams

Stephanie Russell-Kraft

President Donald Trump has been hit with more than 100 lawsuits since he first took office nearly six months ago. While many of the early cases involved issues of refugee and immigrant rights, the latest hopes to take the prolific Twitter-user to court over his decision to “block” certain critics on the social media platform.

In a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court Tuesday by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, seven individuals, including a surgeon, a police officer, professor and political consultant, accused the President of violating their First Amendment rights by preventing them from reading his ...

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