THE JUDGE’S RULING: CREEPING CHILL

In recent weeks, Democrats have decried racism toward President Obama, including in the form of a Nebraska parade float depicting Obama’s presidential library as an outhouse. That float is now the subject of a Department of Justice probe. Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano argues that America’s first freedoms are at stake: “Surely, government officials can use words to defend themselves; in fact, one would hope they would. Yet, when the people fear exercising their expressive liberties because of how the governmental targets they criticize might use the power of the government to stifle them, we are no longer free.”