Updates | The Week of July 10, 2017
Eve Levin // 7/16/17 //
A group of Twitter users blocked by President Trump sued him and two top White House aides claiming President Trump’s Twitter feed is a public forum (NYT, Ars Technica).
- The complaint can be found here.
- The lawsuit is important and powerful, explains Amanda Shanor for Take Care Blog.
- Her previous analyses of the lawsuit can be found here and here.
In overruling the EDPA, the Third Circuit correctly protected citizens’ First Amendment right to record police, writes Eugene Volokh at The Volokh Conspiracy.
- Read the decision here.
President Trump’s campaign trail comments should be held to a different defamation standard, argues his personal lawyer Marc Kasowitz (WaPo).
- Read Kasowitz’s filing here.