Once a bastion of free speech, the ACLU faces an identity crisis

Re:Once a bastion of free speech, the ACLU faces an identity... by bradleyjg on Sunday June 06, 2021 @08:56PM (#27417854)

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.

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Re:Once a bastion of free speech, the ACLU faces an identity... by JPKab on Monday June 07, 2021 @12:56AM (#27419131)

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.

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Re:Once a bastion of free speech, the ACLU faces an identity... by coolgeek on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @04:48PM (#27440580)

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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