Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel editorial:

We urge Walker to form:

■A commission including members of both political parties to study and recommend changes to state law that will promote transparency in campaign donations while considering recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions on political speech. In order to be effective, this must be a public, bipartisan process. A Republican rewrite without Democratic input will not inspire broad confidence that elected representatives will put the public’s interest over their own or those of special interests financing their campaigns.

■A blue ribbon task force to examine the state’s John Doe process and to recommend changes. Although John Doe proceedings are Wisconsin’s equivalent to a federal grand jury, people involved in grand jury proceedings do not see their First Amendment rights to free speech restricted to the degree they were during the Walker investigations. Gag rules may make sense for a judge to order in certain violent crime cases but likely never should apply to investigations involving political speech.