KNIGHT FIRST AMENDMENT INSTITUTE v. TRUMP

No. 18-1691-cv.

953 F.3d 216 (2020)

KNIGHT FIRST AMENDMENT INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Rebecca Buckwalter, Philip Cohen, Holly Figueroa, Eugene Gu, Brandon Neely, Joseph Papp, and Nicholas Pappas, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Donald J. TRUMP, President of the United States and Daniel Scavino, White House Director of Social Media and Assistant To the President, Defendants-Appellants, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House Press Secretary, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

March 23, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For Plaintiffs-Appellees: Jameel Jaffer ( Katherine Fallow , Caroline DeCell , Alexander Abdo , Meenakshi Krishnan , on the brief), Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, New York, NY, Jessica Ring Amunson ( Tassity Johnson , Tali R. Leinwand , on the brief), Jenner & Block, Washington, D.C.

For Defendants-Appellants: Jennifer Utrecht ( Scott McIntosh , on the brief), Attorneys, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, for Joseph H. Hunt , Assistant Attorney General, Hashim M. Mooppan , Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Washington, D.C.

Debra Ann Livingston and Susan L. Carney, Circuit Judges, took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.


This case arises from the President's use of the @realDonaldTrump Twitter account (the "Account") as a primary vehicle for his official communications. He uses this account to make official statements on a wide variety of subjects, many of great national...

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