At the Supreme Court, 'First Amendment interests all over the place'

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At issue were cases that test the ability of public officials to block critics from their 'personal' social medial pages, a practice that Donald Trump often engaged in when he was president.

The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case where two local school board members in Poway, Calif., blocked two persistently critical parents from their social media pages.certainly groping their way on Tuesday, as they sought to craft a new rule for dealing with the social media age.The first of Tuesday's cases dealt with two local school board members in Poway, Calif.

Several justices asked about school board members devoting their pages to school business. Why doesn't that transform their pages into a place where the public's business is being done? Mooppan replied that school business could just as well have been discussed in the board members' backyards, or for that matter, at a campaign event that is open only to fellow Republican or fellow Democratic party members.

Justice Alito asked how blocking a critic from a social media page is different from a public official at the grocery store deflecting a critic by telling her to call his office.

 

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