Top Liberal Blog (Finally) Picks Up Roger Shuler Arrest Story
It only took a full week after his unconstitutional arrest for one of the nation’s top liberal blogs to pick up on
the Roger Shuler story:
An Alabama blogger who continued to write about the
alleged extramarital affair of a prominent lawyer despite a court order
was arrested and jailed last week. He was still being held without bond
as of Tuesday, according to reports.
Roger Shuler, a former local newspaper reporter, writes a blog about
Alabama politics, Legal Schnauzer. He wrote a series of posts alleging
that Robert Riley, Jr., son of former Alabama governor Bob Riley and a
lawyer rumored to be running for Congress, had an affair with lobbyist
Liberty Duke.
Riley sued Shuler and his wife, Carol Shuler, last year for alleged
defamation. The court issued a temporary restraining order and
preliminary and injunction that prohibited Shuler from writing anything
about Riley’s alleged extramarital affair, allegations that he had a
child out of wedlock, and other related stories, according to documents
posted online.
When Shuler continued to write about Riley’s alleged
affair, police pursued him during a traffic stop and arrested him for
contempt.
As even Shuler’s critics have pointed out, this sort of order is what
is known as a prior restraint on First Amendment expression and is
almost certainly unconstitutional. In fact, as California lawyer/blogger
Ken White points out, the Shelby County court order failed to even
acknowledge any of the many U.S. Supreme Court cases that have deemed
this sort of advance ban on speech presumptively unconstitutional.
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Fascism isn't fashionable in the Century Twenty-one. Rob Riley got caught with Liberty Duke and the people in Alabama sent information to Legal Schnauzer to expose the corruption. Messenger gets killed and pioneers get arrows. LS Roger Shuler is a GREAT AMERICAN HERO. The South is a cesspool due to Karl Rove. Age of full transparency the criminally insane behavior -- everyone already has seen and known since the criminals thought hiding was possible
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