Judge Floats Idea to Settle @realDonaldTrump Twitter Blocking Case<br />As she worked her way through pages of meticulous questions<br />and requests for clarification, Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald of the United States District Court suggested a possible resolution, which involved yet another feature of the platform: Muting.<br />The questions that loomed largest over the proceedings did not concern matters of jurisdiction, free speech,<br />or the possibility of the discrimination against certain viewpoints in violation of the First Amendment.<br />The @realDonaldTrump account, which Mr. Trump started in 2009, has more than 48 million followers; @POTUS,<br />which Mr. Trump took over from President Barack Obama on Jan. 20, 2017, has more than 22 million.<br />Michael Baer, a Justice Department lawyer representing Mr. Trump, did not dismiss the muting suggestion outright, but insisted<br />that the president was well within his rights to block whomever he pleased<br />The seven users, who had been blocked by the @realDonaldTrump account after criticizing the president,<br />were joined in the lawsuit by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.
