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(51,564 posts)Initech
(100,079 posts)No way will Kavanaugh vote against them.
The ACLU should be ready to lose every case for the next 20 years or more
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)The constitution is real and powerful, so there will be constraints on what they can accomplish, at least initially.
Also, fwiw, interests can overlap. For instance when Kavanaugh made a liberal decision on a case it turned out on further scrutiny that that happened to coincide with the interests of...business, wealth or government. Forgot the details right now, but...
neohippie
(1,142 posts)They are calling refugees seeking asylum criminals and they took they're children away some may never be re-united.
They are locking up refugees - this is a sad chapter in US history
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)Make America America again.
renate
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lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)llmart
(15,540 posts)They do such good.
Ligyron
(7,633 posts)llmart
(15,540 posts)I do give $5 every now and then when I can.
lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)iluvtennis
(19,862 posts)under the despicable Trump regime.
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)I'll never not be a member again.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)I consider it money well spent.
Also, must give a nod to The Southern Poverty Law Center. They do GREAT work as well.
Stuart G
(38,428 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Never believe that a small monthly donation isnt enabling big results.
I may not be able to do the footwork, but I make all the difference in enabling the real pros to do it.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Equal justice for every single person no matter their standing in life.
Turin_C3PO
(14,004 posts)Its people like you who help keep the fascists at bay.
bdamomma
(63,868 posts)never giving up and working for the people, unfortunately the repigs jerks in Congress who have swallowed trumps dick don't see that way.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)The American Civil Liberties Unions selection of David Cole as its new national legal director creates an opening for the group to revisit a campaign-finance stance that is increasingly out of step with its members and the nation.
Now that Georgetown constitutional law professor David Cole has been named the American Civil Liberties Unions next national legal director, his April article in The Atlantic on How to Reverse Citizens United delivers a second punch.
Coles article gives campaign-finance reform advocates a blueprint for how to overturn the Supreme Courts controversial 2010 ruling to deregulate campaign spending, which has ushered in a flood of secret big money unseen since Watergate, and has fueled mounting public anger over political corruption.
Yet Coles new employer sided squarely with the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. FEC, arguing as it has in a string of cases going all the way back to Buckley v. Valeo in 1976 that limits on political spending trample on the First Amendment. So what gives? Is the ACLU suddenly changing its campaign-finance position? Or has Cole had a change of heart?
Neither, says Cole, who told The American Prospect that both the Buckley ruling to ban individual spending limits, and the aspect of the Citizens United ruling that permits unlimited corporate political spending were essentially decided correctly. On both scores, Cole aligns himself with the ACLU.
However, Cole carves out a new middle ground that could give the ACLU an opening to revisit an issue that has placed it increasingly out of step with its members and with the nation. While Cole agrees with Citizens United that corporations deserve the same spending protections as individuals, he rejects the Courts finding that the only form of corruption that may be regulated is the case of an explicit quid pro quo in exchange for a donation. He also points to other rationales for regulating political money, such as the need to protect electoral integrity and advance equality. All this gives Cole fodder to help the ACLU rethink a campaign-finance stance that has aligned itself with near-total breakdown of laws limiting the role of political money.
http://prospect.org/article/time-aclu-shift-campaign-finance
bdamomma
(63,868 posts)who is "their" participation in Citizens United. Clarify please.
I am a card carrying member of the ACLU and a monthly donator.
spanone
(135,843 posts)BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)The_Counsel
(1,660 posts)The assault on our basic civil liberties has to end soon.