Commentary: @realDonaldTrump isn't just nasty, it's unconstitutional
by Virginia Heffernan, Los Angeles Times
May 30, 2018
3 minutes
A senior federal district judge last week ruled that President Trump violates the 1st Amendment when he blocks his critics on Twitter.
But that's just the most obvious aspect of the immensely interesting decision by Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald of the Southern District of New York in the case of Knight Institute, et al., vs. Donald J. Trump, et al.
Buchwald, who was appointed by President Clinton in 1999, is a jurist of the first rank. She is studiously non-ideological. Her ruling brought equanimity and authority to
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