Hyperventilating in Wisconsin

Documents expose the false legal theory used against Scott Walker.

Updated Aug. 25, 2014 3:01 p.m. ET

President Obama headlined a $25,000 a head Seattle fundraiser in July hosted by former Costco CEO Jim Sinegal for the liberal Senate Majority SuperPac. Perhaps you didn't notice the lack of media outrage. That's the context in which to understand the breathless reporting about court documents showing that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker encouraged donations to the Wisconsin Club for Growth. The horror, the horror!

On Friday the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals responded to a media request and released documents that had...