'Uh oh, Rashida': Rashida Tlaib blocks Steven Crowder on Twitter, despite court ruling that public officials like her can't do that

Sarah D | 1:54 PM on August 16, 2019

Steven Crowder’s among the many people who’ve been giving Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib a hard time over her being an anti-Semite and all-around garbage person.

When I won, it gave the Palestinian people hope that someone will finally speak the truth about the inhumane conditions. I can't allow the State of Israel to take away that light by humiliating me & use my love for my sity to bow down to their oppressive & racist policies. https://t.co/OYIwExV0ga

— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) August 16, 2019

How about this, @RashidaTlaib? Stop calling for the destruction of the country you want to visit long enough for you to visit. Fair?https://t.co/nQI7HjXHLw

— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) August 16, 2019

And go figure. The same woman who’s at ease hanging out with terrorist sympathizers and propagators of the blood libel apparently can’t take the heat that comes with Crowder telling her not to be an anti-Semite:

Man, I’d really love to tweet Rashida Tlaib and encourage her to visit her grandmother, but I can’t because she’s blocked me. Which is actually illegal…

— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) August 16, 2019

Uh oh, Rashida… pic.twitter.com/OZEY5EeEfk

— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) August 16, 2019

Courts have indeed ruled that public officials like Rashida Tlaib can’t block users. From the article Crowder cites, which was written in September 2018:

In May, a judge ruled that President Trump could not block people from following him on Twitter. It was the most prominent in a series of rulings finding that access to public figures on social media is a constitutional right. “The suppression of critical commentary regarding elected officials is the quintessential form of viewpoint discrimination against which the First Amendment guards,” Judge James Cacheris wrote in a case involving a supervisor in Fairfax County, Va.

And then of course just this past July, three judges on the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that Donald Trump — and, therefore, by extension, other public officials — is not allowed to block users from seeing his tweets because it would violate the First Amendment. It was a stupid ruling, but a ruling nonetheless. And in blocking Crowder, Tlaib appears to be violating that ruling.