First Amendment Advocates Charge Trump Can't Block Critics On Twitter

Joshua Geltzer was quoted by NPR in relation to the lawsuit filed against President Trump and how he uses his personal Twitter account:

But it isn't just that President Trump uses the account to make official announcements. He also uses it to interact with the public.

Josh Geltzer, the founding executive director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University Law Center, says it's like a virtual town hall.

The institute filed a brief in support of the blocked Twitter users. He says you can exclude people from a town hall for lack of space, but not for their opinions. He points to a recent case in Virginia where a federal court found the country could not block an individual from an official county Facebook page.

Geltzer says the case was similar to this one. He says the county was trying to "shut out voices that weren't obscene or bullying, but voices that simply expressed criticism or unwanted viewpoints."