US Supreme Court Brings End To Trump Twitter Fight

The US Supreme Court on Monday ended the legal battle for the efforts of former President Donald Trump to block the critics from following his now-frozen Twitter account, deciding the dispute was moot and scrapped a lower court’s decision that found that he had violated the constitutional right of freedom of speech.

Trump has appealed after the New York-based 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeal concluded that he had run afoul of the first amendment of the US Constitution by blocking his critics on the social media platform. Trump, a Republican, left office in January, was replaced by Democratic President Joe Biden. With Trump no longer the president, the judge refused to hear the argument and resolved this case on advantages, removing the 2nd circuit court’s decision.

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Throughout his presidency, Trump had regularly used Twitter to promote his plan and attack his opponents. Twitter prohibited Trump from its services after the hordes of supporters attacked the US Capitol in the worst riots that claimed more than five lives, including a Capitol police officer.

The ban on Donald Trump from the Twitter social media platform will stick even if he ran for the White House again – and even if he won again, said a senior executive in February. “The way our policy works, when you are removed from the platform, you have been removed from the platform,” said Twitter’s finance head Ned Segal.

The ban came after the allegations that Trump incited up the rebellion with his inflammatory advice in a rally in Washington hours before the US Capitol’s chaos unfolded. Twitter made unprecedented steps to ban Trump from the platform after the Capitol rebellion, with the company said it permanently suspended Trump “due to further risk of incitement”.