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Special counsel Jack Smith tried to strike a careful balance in the revised indictment he brought against Donald Trump on Tuesday — hoping to salvage enough of his election-interference case to get it to a jury without running afoul of the Supreme Court’s new and vague definition of presidential immunity. A day earlier, Smith filed an appeal in his other prosecution of the former president, hoping to resurrect the classified documents indictment that a trial judge had thrown out. In both instances, Smith is trying to nurse back to health cases with potentially fatal ailments: in Florida, a set of...

President Trump's decision to block his Twitter followers for their political views is a violation of the First Amendment, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying that Trump's effort to silence his critics is not permissible because the digital space in which he engages with constituents is a public forum. The ruling rejects administration arguments that the First Amendment does not apply to Trump in this case because he was acting as a private individual. In a 75-page decision, Judge Naomi Buchwald said Trump, as a federal official, is not exempt from constitutional obligations to refrain from "viewpoint discrimination." "No government...