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The final nail in the ACLU's coffin
The Hill ^ | 06/11/18 | Alan M. Dershowitz

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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To: SkyDancer

Agreed. When the ACLU supported NAZI march through Skokie, they showed themselves for what they were and are - an enemy within.

https://www.jta.org/2013/06/20/news-opinion/the-telegraph/nazis-marching-through-skokie

They continue to support anti-Judeo Christian values and support laws that are anti-life and anti American.


41 posted on 06/11/2018 5:45:00 PM PDT by victim soul (victim soul)
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To: victim soul

They’re just slime’s.


42 posted on 06/11/2018 5:54:06 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: yesthatjallen
The ACLU is, and always has been the American Communist Lawyers Union.
43 posted on 06/11/2018 6:55:46 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Rush Limbaugh’s Undeniable Truth #36:

Every organization that doesn’t strive to maintain a conservative stance without fail will become increasingly more liberal.


44 posted on 06/11/2018 7:01:14 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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