JUDGE JAILS WEBSITE PUBLISHER: Judge should be impeached.

UPDATE: And the anti-deep-linking thugs at Rodale Press‘s Runner’s World should, er, trip over their shoelaces or something.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Bill Hobbs writes:

Being that I’m a journalist and my father-in-law is a Pulitzer-winning editor who now is chairman of the Freedom Forum, a leading First Amendment/free press foundation, you’d think I’d have a good grasp of the First Amendment. But apparently I missed the day in my Communications Law class where they discussed the little-known “Seattle Clause” hidden in the Bill of Rights that says the First Amendment’s free press rights are only for people who got paid for their writings. Naively, I thought the First Amendment was for everyone, even cantankerous Brits living in Seattle.

So, I have a solution we bloggers can give Mr. Trummel. As soon is his lawyer springs him, he should put a donations box on his website, and we can all donate a buck or two and then he will be a “paid” journalist, covered by even the Seattle version of the First Amendment.

Sounds good to me. Hobbs has the judge’s email, too, if you’d like to pass on your thoughts about the First Amendment.