Trump Wants To Help Conservatives Sue Twitter For Censorship. Justice Brett Kavanaugh Could Get In T

[Judi Lynn]

Trump Wants To Help Conservatives Sue Twitter For Censorship. Justice Brett Kavanaugh Could Get In The Way.
Trump signed an executive order aimed at stripping Twitter and other social media companies of legal immunity.

Zoe Tillman
BuzzFeed News Reporter

Reporting From
Washington, DC

Posted on May 28, 2020, at 7:39 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday aimed at making it easier for people to sue Twitter and other social media platforms for what Trump and his allies have denounced as unconstitutional political censorship.

But any future First Amendment lawsuits that Trump has in mind will run into a problem that his order doesn’t appear to address: A US Supreme Court decision written by a justice he appointed, Brett Kavanaugh.

Trump’s executive order doesn’t — and couldn’t — change Supreme Court precedent. Last year, the court ruled 5-4 that private companies aren’t government actors subject to the First Amendment’s free speech protections just because they open their platforms to the public. Kavanaugh, one of Trump’s two appointees to the Supreme Court, wrote the opinion.

Just this week, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit cited that Kavanaugh opinion when a three-judge panel rejected a First Amendment claim against Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Apple brought by conservative activists, including far-right media personality Laura Loomer, who argued they’d been deplatformed and censored in violation of the First Amendment.

More:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/trump-twitter-executive-order-230-brett-kavanaugh

[brewens]

1. If I were Kavinaugh, I would just call balls and strikes to start with. Then people would be

saying, hey look, he's not such a RW ideologue after all. Maybe that would make it less likely he could be impeached if democrats take over. I think they should look at everything to do with that guy and throw him out regardless. But if he makes it look good for awhile, they might not be so hot to pursue that.

[czarjak]

2. Stick "Devil's Triangle is a drinking game" up his butt and break it off sideways!