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True. We also need to keep soldiers from moving into our homes. More seriously, the ACLU has always faced an identity crisis and a consequent PR problem. If t
by xbar 5y ago
True. We also need to keep soldiers from moving into our homes.
More seriously, the ACLU has always faced an identity crisis and a consequent PR problem.
If the ACLU embraced all civil liberties, wouldn't you expect more Bill-Of-Rights-T-Shirt wearers to be more supportive?
- bradleyjg 5y agoThere used to be a grudging respect between the ACLU and the Federalist society. They disagreed on a lot, but not everything by a long shot. I saw ACLU officials speak at Federalist Society events and vice versa. RBG was famously friends with Scalia. But the current mood is absolutely moral certainty and off the charts self righteousness.
- JPKab 5y agoAgreed. The moral certainty is obnoxious to a comedic level, bordering on tropes of self righteous college students in Che Guevara shirts lecturing about their enlightenment after two semesters at uni.
- coolgeek 5y agoThe goal of the Federalist Society is to replace every single member of the Judiciary with hand-picked candidates that strictly agree with a narrowly-defined canon of legal doctrine. Their members may be less openly confrontational - more genteel - than some ACLU employees. But if you think they're any less certain of their morality, or any less self-righteous than those ACLU employees, you're not seeing reality clearly.