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C M Y K Nxxx,2019-07-10,A,001,Bs-4C,E2 Late Edition Today, sunny, very warm, high 89. Tonight, partly cloudy, low 74. To- morrow, warm, humid, some sun- shine, afternoon thunderstorms, high 85. Weather map, Page C8. VOL. CLXVIII ... No. 58,384 © 2019 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2019 $3.00 Judges Decide ACOSTA IS PRESSED Trump’s Tweets TO QUIT OVER TIES Are Open to All TO EPSTEIN’S DEAL Panel Says President Can’t Block Users LENIENCY ON SEX CRIMES By CHARLIE SAVAGE Backlash After Financier WASHINGTON — President Trump has been violating the Con- Is Charged Anew in stitution by blocking people from following his Twitter account be- Decade-Old Case cause they criticized or mocked him, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday. The ruling could have By GLENN THRUSH broader implications for how the and PATRICIA MAZZEI First Amendment applies to the WASHINGTON — Labor Sec- social-media era. retary R. Alexander Acosta on Because Mr. Trump uses Twit- Tuesday faced fresh calls to re- ter to conduct government busi- sign, and rising pressure from in- ness, he cannot exclude some side the Trump administration, Americans from reading his posts over his role in brokering a lenient — and engaging in conversations plea deal over sex crimes for the in the replies to them — because New York financier Jeffrey E. Ep- he does not like their views, a three-judge panel on the United stein as a federal prosecutor in Mi- States Court of Appeals for the ami more than a decade ago. Second Circuit, in New York, ruled Mr. Acosta, 50, said this week unanimously. that the plea agreement, in which The ruling was one of the high- Mr. Epstein served 13 months in est-profile court decisions yet in a jail after being accused of sexually growing constellation of cases ad- abusing dozens of young women dressing what the First Amend- and girls, was the toughest deal EZRA ACAYAN/GETTY IMAGES ment means in a time when politi- available in a complex and diffi- cal expression increasingly takes cult case. The prosecution, he 3-Year-Old Victim in Philippine Drug War place online. It is also a time, said, would have stood a far better A funeral was held on Tuesday for Kateleen Myci Ulpina, 3, in Rodriguez, the Philippines. She was killed last month by police offi- Judge Barrington D. Parker chance of succeeding in the state cers looking for her father in a drug raid, part of a yearslong crackdown that was ordered by President Rodrigo Duterte in 2016. wrote, when government conduct courts — the same argument he is subject to a “wide-open, robust has been making for years. debate” that “generates a level of “The crimes committed by Ep- passion and intensity the likes of stein are horrific, and I am which have rarely been seen.” Watchdog Set to Size Up F.B.I.’s Russia Inquiry The First Amendment prohibits FRENCH CONFRONT an official who uses a social media tion from Mr. Steele? account for government purposes A WORK CULTURE This article is by Adam Goldman, Report May Ease Bitter That question has hovered over from excluding people from an Charlie Savage and Matthew Ro- the Russia inquiry for two years “otherwise open online dialogue” senberg. Feud Over Scrutiny of as President Trump and his allies because they say things that the repeatedly assailed the investiga- official finds objectionable, Judge A Trial After 35 Suicides WASHINGTON — Inside a Trump Campaign tors who scrutinized him and his Parker wrote. London office building in early advisers. Attorney General “This debate, as uncomfortable Rivets the Nation June, three investigators for the William P. Barr, who has accused and as unpleasant as it frequently Justice Department’s inspector the F.B.I. of “spying” on the Trump may be, is nonetheless a good general took a crucial step toward sources inside Russia, how he campaign, has begun his own re- thing,” the judge wrote. “In resolv- By ADAM NOSSITER clearing the political fallout from communicated with them, and view that will include intelligence ing this appeal, we remind the liti- the Russia investigation: They how he decided which of their agencies as well. gants and the public that if the PARIS — In their blue blazers AL DRAGO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES spent two days interviewing First Amendment means any- and tight haircuts, the aging men claims to include in his reports. But the investigation by Mr. Christopher Steele, the former thing, it means that the best re- R. Alexander Acosta, the labor look uncomfortable in the court- They spoke at length about Mr. Horowitz, who has maintained a British spy whose now-infamous sponse to disfavored speech on secretary since 2017. room dock. And for good reason: Steele’s work with the F.B.I. on reputation for being above the matters of public concern is more they are accused of harassing em- dossier of purported links be- other Russia-related investiga- partisan fray, may have a better speech, not less.” ployees so relentlessly that work- tween Trump associates and Rus- tions and his contacts with a sen- chance of being accepted across pleased that NY prosecutors are ers ended up killing themselves. sia ended up in the hands of the ior Justice Department official. party lines as credible. Mr. Horo- The Justice Department ex- moving forward with a case based pressed disappointment in the The men — all former top exec- F.B.I. ahead of the 2016 election. The interview was a key step in witz, who is expected to release a on new evidence,” Mr. Acosta ruling but said officials had not yet utives at France’s giant telecom The investigators pored over the investigation by the inspector much-anticipated report of his wrote Tuesday on Twitter. decided whether to appeal to the company — wanted to downsize Mr. Steele’s old memos and his general, Michael E. Horowitz, into findings in the coming weeks, is “With the evidence available believed to be weighing whether full appeals court or the Supreme the business by thousands of contemporaneous notes from the facts underlying a bitter parti- more than a decade ago, federal to recommend that the Justice De- Court. workers a decade ago. But they meetings with F.B.I. agents in the san feud: Did F.B.I. officials do prosecutors insisted that Epstein partment tighten rules for any fu- “We are disappointed with the couldn’t fire most of them. The fall of 2016, according to a person anything wrong in 2016 when they go to jail, register as a sex offender workers were state employees — familiar with the investigation. sought to understand the Trump ture counterintelligence investi- court’s decision and are exploring gations of a presidential cam- possible next steps,” said Kelly and put the world on notice that he employees for life — and therefore They asked Mr. Steele to explain campaign’s links to Russia — in- was a sexual predator,” he contin- protected. in detail how he had validated his cluding how they used informa- Continued on Page A20 Laco, a department spokeswom- an. “As we argued, President ued. “Now that new evidence and So the executives resolved to Trump’s decision to block users additional testimony is available, make life so unbearable that the from his personal Twitter account the NY prosecution offers an im- workers would leave, prosecutors does not violate the First Amend- portant opportunity to more fully say. Instead, at least 35 employees ROSS PEROT, 1930-2019 ment.” bring him to justice.” — workers’ advocates say nearly That is not likely to satisfy crit- double that number — committed But Jameel Jaffer, the director suicide, feeling trapped, betrayed of the Knight First Amendment ics, who have long contended that and despairing of ever finding Blunt Billionaire Gadfly Who Jolted an Election Continued on Page A19 Continued on Page A16 new work in France’s immobile la- bor market. Today the former top execu- By ROBERT D. McFADDEN TWITTER’S POLICY The company PERSISTENCE A reporter in Miami tives of France Télécom — once Ross Perot, the wiry Texas gad- backed off from efforts to ban all helped revive the case against the national phone company, and fly who made a fortune in comput- “dehumanizing” posts. PAGE B1 Jeffrey Epstein. PAGE B1 now one of the nation’s biggest er services, amazed the nation private enterprises, Orange — are with audacious paramilitary mis- on trial for “moral harassment.” It sions to Vietnam and Iran, and ran is the first time that French for president in 1992 and 1996 with bosses, caught in the vise of populist talk of restoring Norman Discord With Young Progressives France’s strict labor protections, Rockwell’s America, died on Tues- have been prosecuted for sys- day at his home in Dallas. He was Tests Pelosi and Her Party’s Unity temic harassment that led to 89. worker deaths. The cause was leukemia, a fam- The trial has riveted a country ily spokesman, James Fuller, said. By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS deeply conflicted about capitalism They called him the man from and corporate culture, and may Texarkana, but he really came out WASHINGTON — Speaker ways, setting off a flurry of criti- help answer a question that of an era — the Great Depression, Nancy Pelosi said they have no cism of Ms. Pelosi among liberal haunts the French as they fitfully World War II and the exuberant following in Congress. Represent- activists and reinvigorating a de- modernize their economy: How postwar years — when boys had ative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of bate within the party about how far can a company go to stream- paper routes, folks tuned in to the New York shot back that she and best to stand up to President line, shed debt and make money? radio and patriots rolled up their three of her fellow liberal fresh- Trump.

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