Blogger Aaron Walker Wins First Amendment Victory over Brett Kimberlin

Blogger Aaron Walker Wins First Amendment Victory over Brett Kimberlin

In a victory for the First Amendment and citizen journalism, blogger Aaron Walker won a decisive victory over convicted felon and left-wing activist Brett Kimberlin in a Maryland courtroom today. Judge Nelson Rupp ruled that Walker blogging about his belief that Kimberlin framed him for a crime was not harassment, overturning an earlier ruling that stated that Walker, who writes at Allergic To Bull, was not allowed to blog about Brett Kimberlin ‘in any way’.

In the first hearing, on May 30th, Judge Cornelius Vaughey ruled that blogging about Kimberlin qualified as ‘contact’ with him, and proceeded to order Walker not to write about Kimberlin in any way--including, he added, blogging, tweeting, sending smoke signals, using radar, sonar or laser.