President Donald Trump has been
party to an eye-watering 4,000 lawsuits over the last 30 years, US media say.
Now the mogul turned
commander-in-chief has attracted one more, after seven people sued him for
blocking them on Twitter.
President Trump is an avid user of
the social media forum, which he deploys to praise allies and lambast critics.
The lawsuit was filed by the Knight First
Amendment Institute,
a free speech group at Columbia University.
The seven Twitter users involved
claim their accounts were blocked by the president, or his aides, after they
replied to his tweets with mocking or critical comments.
The legal complaint argues that by
blocking these individuals, Trump has barred them from joining the online
conversation.
It calls the move an attempt to
"suppress dissent" in a public forum and a violation of their First
Amendment right to free speech.
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