Ocasio-Cortez Sued Over Allegedly Unconstitutional Twitter Block

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) shouldn’t get to block Twitter Inc. users, according to a suit filed hours after a federal appeals court barred President Donald Trump from doing so.

Ocasio-Cortez allegedly blocked Dov Hikind from viewing her tweets in violation of his First Amendment rights, Hikind said in his lawsuit filed July 9 in a New York federal court.

Trump can’t block critics from responding to his posts because it’s effectively a form of viewpoint discrimination, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said.

The freshman representative blocked Hikind, a former New York state assemblyman who founded ...