Supreme Court Social Media Clash Evokes Trump’s Twitter Use (1)

The US Supreme Court debated whether public officials can be sued for restricting access to their social media feeds in cases that evoked former President Donald Trump’s efforts to block people from his Twitter account.

Hearing the first of several social media clashes in their 2023-24 term, the justices on Tuesday weighed how the First Amendment’s free speech protections apply when government officials use their private accounts to discuss public business.

Trump was conducting “a lot of government on his Twitter account,” Justice Elena Kagan said. “It was an important part of how he wielded his authority, and to ...