![]() Most recently, Trump’s attacks on mail-in voting and on a cable news host, Joe Scarborough, have created controversies and put a great deal of pressure on Twitter, Trump’s preferred bullhorn, to modulate the president’s speech. “The only first amendment issue here arises from the president’s threat to punish Twitter in some way for factchecking his statements.” “It’s disturbing that the president misunderstands the first amendment so fundamentally,” said Jameel Jaffer, the executive director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. His takeover of the federal courts could put future first amendment claims on new and dangerous ground. In 2018 a federal judge ruled the president could not block people on Twitter, because it violates their first amendment rights to participate in a “public forum”.Īs his election-year polling numbers have deteriorated, however, Trump has grown increasingly wild in his threats against media organizations and the voting system, and more aggressive in removing mechanisms for oversight in the federal government and in installing loyalists. Trump in the past has made threats about media censorship that he did not then act on, and any attempt by the White House to shutter a media organization would encounter first amendment challenges in the courts. Republicans fear that an expansion of the franchise could result in their members being ejected from office. Trump also repeated his attacks on mail-in voting, which is common in the United States but could expand further during the coronavirus pandemic. ![]() Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, told reporters traveling onboard Air Force One on Wednesday that Trump soon planned to sign an executive order on social media companies, but details remained scant. ![]() ![]() “We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen.” “Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices,” Trump tweeted on Wednesday morning. ![]()
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