He's a witch! Burn him!

If you think Scott Walker is in trouble, you need to read this quick and tidy summation from Gabriel Malor of the actual facts of the case. The key points:

This is a true story: in 2012, Democratic district attorneys in Wisconsin launched a secret probe known as a John Doe investigation with the goal of proving that conservative groups illegally coordinated activities during Gov. Scott Walker’s recall election. They issued more than 100 subpoenas, demanded the private information of conservatives and conservative groups, and actually conducted secret raids. And under state law, individuals who were targeted or witness to the investigation were forbidden from making knowledge of it public.

Fortunately, judges saw right through this partisan abuse of power. Early this year, a state judge, ruling in a secret proceeding, quashed the subpoenas and all but ended the investigation. According to the judge, “the subpoenas do not show probable cause that the moving parties committed any violations of the campaign finance laws.” This started the unraveling of the John Doe investigation that had many conservatives fearing they would be targeted for subpoenas and raids next.

In February, a conservative activist and group filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the partisan district attorneys who had pursued the John Doe probe. In short order, a federal district court judge held that the plaintiffs “are likely to succeed on their claim that the defendants‘ investigation violates their rights under the First Amendment, such that the investigation was commenced and conducted ―without a reasonable expectation of obtaining a valid conviction.” In other words, at this early stage of the civil rights litigation, it looks to the judge as if the Democratic district attorneys abused their power and chilled conservatives’ free speech rights. Accordingly, the federal judge ordered that the John Doe probe must cease, all the seized property be returned, and all copies of materials be destroyed.

After a short trip to a federal appeals court, the federal judge reissued his order that the John Doe probe cease. Most recently, that appeals court has ordered some of the previously secret probe documents disclosed to the public, including an unsuccessful defense that the John Doe investigators made to one of their secret subpoenas. In their attempt to get a subpoena, which was rejected by a judge for lacking probable cause, the partisan investigators claimed that Walker was involved in the so-called conservative conspiracy.

There's more at the link and you should read it. What the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the rest of the MSM did on Thursday was disgraceful, but at this point they are beyond shame. Scott Walker must be destroyed.

The truth really doesn't matter much. The narrative is all that really matters. Prosecutors can allege that Scott Walker is really Jeffrey Dahmer, but that doesn't make it so. As it stands, there's an excellent chance that the prosecutors doing the alleging are going to be the ones who end up in the dock for abusing their power. That's a significantly more interesting development, but it doesn't advance the narrative, so you'll not hear anything about it.

We live in a very mendacious time. Eventually, we will emerge from it, but it's going to remain very unpleasant for a very long time. Our betters are growing impatient with us because we aren't getting with the program.