A judge’s order has let True Blue Minnesota’s Jumbotron show go on. Since the start of the RNC on Monday, the big screen at Kellogg and John Ireland boulevards has been like an all-day drive-in film fest of ideas and images to counter those emanating from the Xcel Center just down the hill. Today’s Blue Tube features are “Outfoxed” and “The Lost Year in Iraq,” along with other works by local and national artists.

True Blue Minnesota spent months lining up permission to mount the giant electronic billboard during the RNC, only to have Lt. Gov. Carol Molnau cast the deciding vote against the project at last week’s meeting of the Capitol Area Architectural and Planning Board. After True Blue Minnesota filed for an injunction, Ramsey County District Court Chief Judge Kathleen Gearin ruled Friday that the Jumbotron could be turned on until she decided whether the board’s decision was content-neutral.

Yesterday Gearin asked both sides for transcripts of the board meeting and as of midday today she hadn’t issued a decision in the matter. In the meantime, True Blue Minnesota plans to keep the Blue Tube running through the end of the convention.

The squabble follows Clear Channel’s pulling five billboards with artist Suzanne Opton’s portraits of U.S. soldiers, and earlier in August another court ruling upholding for the first time a Minnesota city’s ban on electronic billboards.

This summer, an electronic billboard in Maplewood featured only black faces on a rotating series of Wanted posters, and another in Minneapolis carried an ad for a nonprofit set up by a Minneapolis City Council member who pushed to permit the billboard’s installation.