Bluegrass Reports | Update on the Fletcher Follies

Bluegrass Reports has an Update on it's lawsuit against KY Governor Fletcher, who did what Republicans do best, blocked opposing viewpoints on state computers and let conservative Blogs and sites through. Surprised?
Here's More Governor Fletcher Follies.
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UPDATE: Mark Nickolas v. Governor Ernie Fletcher, et al.

Recently, a number of readers have asked me for an update on the federal 1st Amendment lawsuit that I filed against indicted Governor Fletcher (R), Secretary Robbie Rudolph and Finance Secretary John Farris last month.

First of all, now that the matter has been moved from the political arena to a legal forum, I've been careful to respect the process and not simultaneously politicize it here on BluegrassReport.org. The action was filed fully to get the Fletcher administration to back-off their unconstitutional efforts to restrict my protected political speech, not as a publicity stunt, and we are very determined to win this matter in federal court.

However, there is a significant development in the case and one that I wanted to be sure you knew about.
Yesterday, my legal team filed a Motion for Preliminary Injunction. As I understand it, it's a request to the judge that the case has so much merit and a likelihood that we will eventually prevail that the Fletcher administration should immediately unblock BluegrassReport.org while the matter is being litigated.

(click here for the 41-page legal brief and the 53 pages of exhibits. You can also read the original complaint here).

I thought my legal team (Louisville's Jennifer Moore, along with Greg Beck and his team at Public Citizen in Washington, DC) did an incredible job with the brief.

From a pure interest and evolution of media standpoint, I really encourage you to read section two (pages 11-18) which lays out the state's "illegitimate distinction
between news-related websites it classifies as 'blogs' and mainstream newspaper
and magazine websites." While that's just one of several crucial arguments in
this case, it's also the one that is getting a great deal of national attention
as the establishment comes to grips with the burgeoning presence of blogs on the
political scene.

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