When it comes to blocking people on Twitter, President Donald Trump is hands-on, creating a distinction that a U.S. Justice Department attorney urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to seize upon to restore his ability to block users.

That was one of the ways lawyers for the government attempted to parse Trump's actions on Twitter on appeal, as it sought to have the panel overturn a district court decision saying a group of Twitter users could not be blocked by the president.

The distinction was probed during the argument, with one pointed question indicating it would be hard to see Trump's Twitter account as a non-public forum.