KNIGHT FIRST AMENDMENT INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Rebecca Buckwalter, Philip Cohen, Holly Figueroa, Eugene Gu, Brandon Neely, Joseph Papp, and Nicholas Pappas v. Donald J. TRUMP, Hope Hicks, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Daniel Scavino

NAOMI REICE BUCHWALD, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE This case requires us to consider whether a public official may, consistent with the First Amendment, "block" a person from his Twitter account in response to the political views that person has expressed, and whether the analysis differs because that public official is the President of the United States. The answer to both questions is no. Our analysis proceeds as