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Former Democratic New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind told Fox News Tuesday that he is preparing to sue Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., for blocking users on Twitter based on their personal viewpoints, following a federal appeals court ruling barring President Trump from doing the same. Asked where his lawsuit would be filed and whether other plaintiffs would be involved, Hikind told Fox News in an email, "All that’s being determined at the moment." "Most likely we will be [the] only plaintiff, but [we will be] citing other examples," Hikind continued. "The claim is [the] same as [the] one against Trump. She...

President Donald Trump’s practice of blocking critics on Twitter runs afoul of the First Amendment, a federal appeals court in New York ruled on Tuesday.Writing for a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan, Judge Barrington Parker said that the president’s @realDonaldTrump account on Twitter is indeed a public forum and that “once the President has chosen a platform and opened up its interactive space to millions of users and participants, he may not selectively exclude those whose views he disagrees with.”In oral arguments for the case in March, the appeals judges repeatedly...

President Donald Trump cannot block users on his Twitter feed, a federal judge in New York City ruled Wednesday. Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald said in her ruling that Trump is violating the U.S. Constitution by preventing certain Americans from viewing his tweets. The social media platform, Buchwald said, is a "designated public forum" from which Trump cannot exclude individual plaintiffs.

Please read the letter below. Please call your State legislators and ask them to help resolve this Constitutional injustice. The name of the person who is turning us down at Moorpark City Hall is Mary Lindley, Head of Parks and Recreation for the City of Moorpark. Direct phone number phone (805) 517-6216. General phone number (805) 517-6200. Talks have stopped between the Moorpark/Simi Valley Republican Assembly and the City of Moorpark. As of this time, the event in Moorpark is very much in question. More as it develops. Freeman Sawyer... (805) 484-5622 ******************************************************** This letter was sent out by Andy...