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Judge rules Trump can't block people on Twitter

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New York federal Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald ruled President Donald Trump cannot block people on Twitter.

Buchwald said Trump is in violation of the Constitution when he blocks users.

"We hold that portions of the @realDonaldTrump account - the 'interactive space' where Twitter users may directly engage with the content of the president's tweets - are properly analyzed under the 'public forum' doctrines set forth by the Supreme Court, that such space is a designated public forum, and that the blocking of the plaintiffs based on their political speech constitutes viewpoint discrimination that violates the First Amendment," Buchwald wrote.

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