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0 pointsxbar4y ago0 comments

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?

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bradleyjg4y ago

There 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.

JPKab4y ago

Agreed.

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.

coolgeek4y ago

The 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.

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