Comments on: “Do You Have a Constitutional Right to Follow the President on Twitter?” https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/06/constitutional-right-follow-president-twitter/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 16 Jun 2017 20:28:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: D https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/06/constitutional-right-follow-president-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-345988 Fri, 16 Jun 2017 20:28:41 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=64874#comment-345988 I can imagine The Onion Real Voices comment:
“Wow. President Trump really put Twitter on the map!”

On a serious note, what is the effect of his Twitter account being a designated public forum? What is the definition and what rules apply?

]]> By: Crabtree https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/06/constitutional-right-follow-president-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-345974 Thu, 15 Jun 2017 13:05:58 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=64874#comment-345974 And they can still see them. They just have to log out of Twitter first. It mostly keeps them from replying to him, which is more like refusing to take questions from certain people because they’ve annoyed you too much.

]]> By: Richard https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/06/constitutional-right-follow-president-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-345972 Wed, 14 Jun 2017 20:10:07 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=64874#comment-345972 Rather than “because this is Trump” is should be “because this President’s spokesperson has stated that this President’s tweets “are considered official statements of the President.”

]]> By: great unknown https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/06/constitutional-right-follow-president-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-345971 Wed, 14 Jun 2017 15:11:48 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=64874#comment-345971 Ninth Circuit opinion: Normally, no. There is no Constitutional right to follow a President on Twitter. However, because this is Trump, he has no right to block anybody from following him.

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