Posted on 06/11/2018 1:31:30 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The director of the American Civil Liberties Union has now acknowledged what should have been obvious to everybody over the past several years: The ACLU is no longer a neutral defender of everyone’s civil liberties. It has morphed into a hyper-partisan, hard-left political advocacy group. The final nail in its coffin was the announcement that, for the first time in its history, the ACLU would become involved in partisan electoral politics, supporting candidates, referenda and other agenda-driven political goals.
The headline in the June 8 edition of the New Yorker ( The A.C.L.U. Is Getting Involved in Elections—and Reinventing Itself for the Trump Era ) tells it all: “The ACLU is getting involved in elections — and reinventing itself for the Trump era.” The article continues: “In this midterm year, however, as progressive groups have mushroomed and grown more active, and as liberal billionaires such as Howard Schultz and Tom Steyer have begun to imagine themselves as political heroes and eye presidential runs, the ACLU, itself newly flush, has begun to move in step with the times. For the first time in its history, the ACLU is taking an active role in elections. The group has plans to spend more than 25 million dollars on races and ballot initiatives by Election Day, in November.
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The A.C.L.U. Is Getting Involved in Elections—and Reinventing Itself for the Trump Era
I wish it was the nail in the coffin.
in fact the ACLU should drop the pretense and join the SPLC and the dnc in hating and trying to destroy the USA.
In other news: Water is wet.
You can tell because they have never taken up cases to enforce the 2nd Amendment as written.
“reinventing” is code for “politicizing”
The ACLU was founded by the Communist Party, it should be no surprise they continue to support its descendants, the Democrats.
Last summer they said they would only defend speech they agree with going forward. That is pretty much the definition of not being supporters of the first amendment. From that point on (if not before) they became a political fund-raising machine and nothing more.
It has morphed into a hyper-partisan, hard-left political advocacy group/////
It always was one. They would defend the occasional Nazi or KKKer as tokens, to maintain the fig leaf of neutrality.
I’m pretty sure it’s illegal for non-profit entities to get directly involved in political campaigns.
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So how is what they’re doing now any different than what they did before, you ask?
Now they’re brave enough to announce it.
But they’re a tax exempt non profit organization. They can’t be political. Right?
The ACLU was NEVER a “neutral” defender of everybody’s rights, Mr. Dershowitz.
“Felix Frankfurter?”
Sounds like a porn star name!
Skokie, IL - the ACLU was dead after that.
What idiot ever believed the ACLU wasn’t an ultra liberal partisan group!!!
Then... no more government funding! That never should have happened in the first place.
If they’re actively and financially getting involved with elections this would completely change their status and charter.
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