From NationalReview.com…
It seems incredible. After more than 400 lawsuits against his policies, countless full-page ads in national dailies attacking him, and fundraising over $300 million off this activity, the American Civil Liberties Union has come down on the side of Donald Trump, for once. Yesterday, its executive director, Anthony Romero, joined in support of Elon Musk’s announcement that Trump would be unbanned from Twitter. “Like it or not, President Trump is one of the most important political figures in this country, and the public has a strong interest in hearing his speech,” he said.
What a relief. The ACLU supports free speech, again. As the name suggests, its raison d’être of defending “civil liberties” should absolutely include the First Amendment. Indeed, that’s what made its name. For over a hundred years, the organization worked as a defender of free speech — even speech most of us would find highly offensive — and was part of virtually every major First Amendment legal case since 1920, irrespective of the ideological bent.
