Honestly, what more can Trump accomplish?
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After Politico reported that the American Civil Liberties Union was spending more than $1 million to oppose Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court, I checked the ACLU website to see if its core mission had changed – if the ACLU had now officially abandoned its nonpartisan nature and become yet another Democratic super PAC. But no, the ACLU still claims it is "nonpartisan."
So why did the ACLU oppose a Republican nominee to the Supreme Court and argue for a presumption of guilt regarding sexual allegations directed against that judicial nominee?
The answer is as clear as it is simple. It is all about pleasing the donors. The ACLU used to be cash poor but principle-rich. Now, ironically, after Trump taking office, the ACLU has never become so cash-rich, yet principle-poor. Before Donald Trump was elected president, the ACLU had an annual operating budget of $60 million dollars. When I was on the ACLU National Board, it was a fraction of that amount. Today it is flush with cash, with net assets of more than $450 million dollars. As the ACLU itself admitted in its annual report ending 2017, it received "unprecedented donations" after President Trump's election. "Unprecedented" it truly has been: the ACLU received $120 million dollars from online donations alone (up from $3-5 million during the Obama years).
The problem is that most of the money is not coming from civil libertarians who care about free speech, due process, the rights of the accused and defending the unpopular. It is coming from radical leftists in Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and other areas not known for a deep commitment to civil liberties. To its everlasting disgrace, the ACLU is abandoning its mission in order to follow the money. It now spends millions of dollars on TV ads that are indistinguishable from left-wing organizations, such as MoveOn, the Democratic National Committee, and other partisan groups.
Link: Dershowitz
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I agree with Dershowitz that America needs an ACLU, and it is too bad it doesn't have one.
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How is the ACLU dying?
How did Trump expose them?
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And good try to pretend you were kidding.
opposed moderate Kav. I'm right.
Taking America down the road of moral and financial bankruptcy. It’s his specialty
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You guys are as bad as NDinTN.
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The ACLU is dead. Hmmm, I thought they died because of Cicero. Remember Cicero? The Nazi party wanted to march in Cicero-a town with a large Jewish population, many of them refugees from Hitler's death camps. The town refused a permit to march and who represented them in court-ACLU. Everyone was outraged, "this is it, the ACLU is dead" and the beat went on. The left was outraged-representing Nazis-that's it. Yet they survived. So get a sense of history, BK's matter was nothing compared to Cicero
Also, I notice the link is to Dershowitz. He's has become a tool/ fool who prances around and reinforces the argument that coming from Harvard does not mean you know what you're talking about. Most of his big cases he has lost: Helmsley, Tyson, Tynon. By the way, these name may be misspelled. His one claim to fame was the Klaus Von Buelow case in which he did the appellate work but tries to pass himself off as the person who won the trial. He did not. Tom Conti was the trial lawyer for Klaus.
Trump exposed nada.
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That's different from declining the cases of Klan members.
TDS reveals all stupidity, in every form.
I guess when the Dear Leader criticizes things, his idiot followers figure they’re dead.
before the Supreme Court after it spent millions to oppose Kav?
They will move to disqualify Kavs anyways.
Dershowitz's shitty opinion piece that doesn't even make a case for the ACLU being dead?
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