US President Trump can't block his critics on Twitter, judge rules

A federal judge said she expects President Donald Trump and the White House to accept her ruling that it was improper to block critics of the president on Twitter

President Donald Trump cannot legally block Twitter users who disagree with him, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in a case with potentially far-reaching implications for social media use by public officials.

Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald said the blocking of Trump critics -- which prevents them from seeing and interacting with the president's tweets -- violated the free speech rights of those users guaranteed in the Constitution's First Amendment.