Lawsuit lawyers: Trump tweets 'an instrument of governance'

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Larry Neumeister, Associated Press
 Updated 3:14 pm, Saturday, November 4, 2017

NEW YORK (AP) — First Amendment advocates challenging President Donald Trump for blocking some critics from following him on Twitter say his tweets are "an instrument of governance."

The lawyers asked a judge in papers filed in Manhattan federal court late Friday to rule in their favor and stop the president and his media team from blocking followers whose comments he doesn't like.

They did so after government lawyers argued in papers three weeks ago that a court should conclude Trump can choose not to hear some voices in an online account he began when he was a private citizen.

"The president uses the account for his speech, not as a forum for the private speech of others," lawyers for the U.S. Department of Justice wrote.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Lawsuit-lawyers-Trump-tweets-an-instrument-of-12331982.php

[DallasNE]

1. Trump's Musings Are An Instrument Of Governance

Akin to using a private email account. Improper but still an instrument of governance. The sole purpose of both is to hide stuff from the American people when transparency should be the order of the day.

[Gothmog]

2. There's a reason presidents don't comment on ongoing criminal matters.

Link to tweet

?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.democraticunderground.com%2F%3Fcom%3Dview_post%26forum%3D1014%26pid%3D1905683

[freddyvh]

3. hmm

so his own attorneys say trump is breaking the law when he deletes a tweet

an admission of guilt

[BadGimp]

4. I have a feeling Trump will rue the day he weaponized his Twitter account.