"“Words have power and words spoken by the president have power,” says Neil Richards, a constitutional law professor at Washington University. “The medium by which those words are expressed is irrelevant.”
“One of the reasons that presidents in the past have been reluctant to make blunt controversial statements is they can then be used against them either as a matter of politics or, as in this case, in litigation,” Richards says. “I think it shows that perhaps Twitter is not the best medium for weighing in on complicated questions of policy.”"
- Date Published:03/15/2017
- Original Publication:Wired