Actually they seem to be working on quite a variety of first amendment cases currently. At least if the list of current cases on their web site is to be believed.
https://www.aclu.org/court-cases?issue=free-speech
that is good, I will spend some time with this list. There are other issues that… Well I don’t remember what they didn’t take up but maybe I’m wrong. Sometimes it happens. But I do know there’s a new kid in town, a different organization that focuses on first amendment legal challenges exclusively and as you can imagine, has hardly any money to do it. Can’t think of the name but it’ll come to me.
I do hope the ACLU is taking up both “ sides” of free speech issues.
Of the few cases on that list, I can’t see any of them that would be representative of the old ACLU which used to take up First Amendment cases that would seemingly be on both sides of the political spectrum. These listed are one-sided and one of them, the Vlaming case, has the ACLU promoting compelled speech. Oy.
So no, the ACLU no longer takes up important free speech speech cases it should take up. My money hasn’t gone to them in a long time.
But thanks for forcing me to spend a few minutes with their website.
I guess you were hoping for something more like this?
https://www.nj.com/union/2021/07/nj-...outputType=amp
I have been negligent in reporting here any of the growing number of incidents where the federal government is infringing on free-speech.
The intimidation by government goons of Twitter has been taken up in recent congressional hearings. That is a scary thing. Your President Biden at work.
Entirely different, The one I just learned about today is What the fk. Whoever made the decision to suppress free speech of those entering the National Archives building needs to be fired. Here’s what happened: people holding a pro life gathering in Washington DC stopped into the National Archives building to look at the Bill of Rights document. Those people were told to cover up their shirts and buttons expressing support for pro life issues.
Wearing a political statement is free speech. Could it be any more ironic, this group of people who are there to look at the Bill of Roghts found their basic right denied? Once again, you can’t make this stuff up, this is not the Babylon Bee, this is real life.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/10/nati...hing-flap.html
The American Center for Law and Justice is representing the pro-life people in their lawsuit against the federal organization that denied them free speech. Where is the ACLU? Isn’t this their kind of gig? They are nowhere to be found.
The American Center for Law and Justice traditionally defends religious freedom and expression in lawsuits.
This is a free speech issue, adjacent to religious freedom.
Remember, these are Americans paying American dollars to support this American institution, and they wanted to view the quintessential American document, the Bill of Rights. They were harassed by museum staff for wearing non-swear words on their clothing.
Employees in the gift shop of the National !archives also harassed these people.
If the incident was just one security guard wrongly exerting his understanding of museum policy, that would be one thing. But this represents a pervasive culture oF political persecution. Those who express wrongthink are not welcome at The National Archives.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/02/...-life-apparel/
This article gives more detail, and as I thought it was more than just one security officer who harassed people. I just knew, because I worked in this kind of place, that the building supervisor of the day instructed staff to ask people to remove their clothing with pro-life slogans.
Since the National Archives claims their public attendance policy expressly allows political speech on clothing, I will cut them slack (although I would like to see the date of when that policy was enacted) and I hope that the offer to give a private tour kills the lawsuit.
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