Federal Judge Rudolph Randa summed up in one sentence out of 269 pages what the infamous John Doe investigation against Gov. Scott Walker and his conservative allies was all about — suppressing the rights of conservatives to free speech and the right to assemble.

He also states in his opinion, “Therefore any attempt at regulation of free speech is subject to the strictest scrutiny, meaning that it is the government’s burden to show that its regulation is narrowly tailored to achieve the only goal of the regulation — preventing quid quo pro corruption or the appearance thereof as it pertains to elected officials or candidates.”

In essence, the five Democrat district attorneys who created the criminal investigation not only theorized alleged corruption, they couldn’t even come close to creating a case, least of all proving it. They didn’t have anything. Everything the defendants, Gov. Walker and his conservative allies were doing was legal and above board.

...The John Doe investigators are no better than King George. Using king-like authority they unilaterally moved to suppress a conservative movement that had just won the minds of Wisconsin voters.

As Democratic U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown’s Congressional district remains effectively on trial, she took the time Monday to rip into the legal challenge brought by a coalition of voting-rights groups against the state’s redistricting effort.

...On the stand Monday were witnesses called by the local NAACP chapter, who said the district was vital to ensuring black Floridians are represented in Congress. They resisted the suggestion that lowering the percentage of black voters would not hurt African Americans’ ability to elect a preferred candidate.

Former Florida NAACP executive director Beverly Neal alluded to the fact that white Democratic U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson represents the district drawn in 2012, where only two years earlier Latinos comprised nearly 41.4 percent of the vote.

“That was supposed to have been a Hispanic district,” Neal said, “and it’s not.”