Congressional Digest

Supreme Court Debates January 2024 No. 1 Vol. 27
Christopher and Kimberly Garnier, Respondents

Politicians on Social Media

Free Speech and the Right to Block

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Christopher and Kimberly Garnier, Respondents

Christopher and Kimberly Garnier are longtime residents of the San Diego, California, area. Both they and their three children attended school in the Poway Unified School District. The Garniers regularly interacted with the district’s school board, attending meetings and sending correspondence through postal mail and email. They were particularly interested in issues of financial mismanagement and racism. In 2017, the Garniers were blocked from the personal social media accounts of two school board members, Michelle O’Connor-Ratcliff and T.J. Zane, who said the couple was posting repetitious and nonresponsive messages on their pages, in which they frequently solicited constituent feedback and…

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