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- The Justice Department said it appealed a "fundamentally misconceived" ruling in which President Donald Trump was found to have violated the US Constitution by blocking Twitter users from his account.
- The DOJ argued Trump's account belongs to him "in his personal capacity," and "not the control of the government," and thereby affords him immunity from obligations to engage with the public.
- The Southern District of New York ruled in May that Trump could not legally block his followers merely for political reasons, calling it "viewpoint discrimination that violates the First Amendment."
The Justice Department said it appealed what it called a "fundamentally misconceived" ruling in which President Donald Trump was found to have violated the US Constitution by blocking users from his personal Twitter account.
"Donald Trump uses his Twitter account as a means of communicating his own views to interested members of the public," a legal brief from the Justice Department argued. "For nearly a decade, he has used that account to convey his thoughts on a wide variety of topics, ranging from popular culture to world affairs. Since becoming President, he has continued to use that account in the same way."
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