An excellent article that shows that these intramural fights are nothing new: >The A.C.L.U. has in fact often gloried in its internal contentions. It split ove

An excellent article that shows that these intramural fights are nothing new: >The A.C.L.U. has in fact often gloried in its internal contentions. It split over decisions to represent the Nazis in the 1930s, the Ku Klux Klan in the 1960s, and the Nazis in the 1970s. After Skokie, a leader of the left-wing National Lawyers Guild complained of its “poisonous evenhandedness.”