BACKGROUND
On July 9, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the
Second Circuit issued Knight First Amendment Institute at
Columbia Univ., et al. v. Donald J. Trump, et al., No.
18-1691, 2019 WL 2932440 (2d Cir. July 9, 2019), and affirmed the
district court's ruling that President Trump violated the First
Amendment when he "blocked" users from his Twitter
account. Specifically, the court held that President Trump engaged
in unlawful viewpoint discrimination when he "blocked"
users who criticized him or his policies on his @realDonaldTrump
Twitter account from further viewing and interacting with the
tweets on his page.
In 2009, before his presidency, Trump registered the
@realDonaldTrump account as a personal account, and used it to
comment on pop culture, politics and other topics. Since his
inauguration in January 2017, President Trump has used the account
almost exclusively to communicate and interact with the public on
issues relating to his
