First Amendment group files new suit against Trump over blocked Twitter users


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  • Saturday, 01 Aug 2020

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) task force news briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 30, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A group on Friday filed a new lawsuit against U.S. President Donald Trump demanding he unblock additional Twitter users from viewing his account.

Trump lost a prior lawsuit in May 2018 on behalf of other Twitter users and agreed to unblock those accounts. The new lawsuit filed by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University in U.S. District Court in Manhattan is on behalf of five additional individuals who remain blocked.

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