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Before Twitter came along the president didn't have the legal ability to prevent you from criticizing him in any other venue either.
by daveguy 8y ago
Before Twitter came along the president didn't have the legal ability to prevent you from criticizing him in any other venue either.
- zaroth 8y agoTrump removed plenty of hecklers from his campaign events.
- daveguy 8y agoGood point. If critical tweets kept him from giving his message then I expect the judge would have ruled differently.
- enraged_camel 8y agoHe had not been elected yet. The moment he did, things changed.
- zaroth 8y agoCertainly he continues to remove hecklers from his campaign events. The distinction is a campaign event isn’t a “public forum”.
- dragonwriter 8y agoCampaign events are generally not public forums, even if the candidate happens to also be an incumbent public official. For a federal official (and similar laws exist for state government), if the nexus with official government affairs required to make a public forum existed with a campaign event, that’d probably violate the Hatch Act separately from whether any violation of public forum law occurred.