The ACLU has a long, sleazy, sordid history of ignoring alleged civil liberties violations when its conservatives who are the victims, and then immediately "discovering" the issues when liberals are the victims. Even their latest humiliating smackdown (from the Ninth Circus, of all people) was based on such selective outrage. The ACLU didn't give a damn about punch-card ballot machines in California in the 2002 elections, even though that was a full two years after the Florida fiasco. Only in 2003, when their beloved Democratic Party looked like it was about to lose the governorship in California, did it suddenly become an issue of the utmost national importance.
They are scum.
And - where is this group now that Terri Schiavo needs them so desperately! Maybe I'm just getting old but I thought the ACLU was founded to help people.