Here we go again.

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Gov. Mike Braun warned that teachers could lose their licenses over tasteless or “celebratory” posts. Attorney General Todd Rokita followed Monday with a six-page memo urging schools that it would be “wise” to remove such educators.

Let’s stipulate two obvious points: Political violence is wrong; gloating over a killing is grotesque. But Braun’s blanket threat and Rokita’s maximalist “guidance” risk turning a moment for sober-minded judgment into a campaign for public shaming and summary punishment.

The attorney general’s memo leans hard on workplace speech case law to argue schools have “substantial authority” to fire teachers over off-duty posts, even without actual disruption. This is a capricious standard that invites of

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