It’s hard to argue that the American Civil Liberties Union (or ACLU) isn’t a very, very, very leftwing organization. While the group claims its mission is ‘to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States’, most on the right will have a fairly reflexively negative feeling towards them based on their tireless advocacy for lefty causes célèbre like trans and gay rights, anti-second amendment agitating, and pro-abortion issues and groups. But every once in a while the ACLU will throw a curve ball that somewhat complicates that view, as they did today:
BREAKING: We’re representing the NRA at the Supreme Court in their case against New York’s Department of Financial Services for abusing its regulatory power to violate the NRA’s First Amendment rights.
The government can’t blacklist an advocacy group because of its viewpoint.
— ACLU (@ACLU) December 9, 2023
We won’t go into the nitty gritty of the case (if you’re interested you can find a good writeup from the New York Times here) but it largely centers around the actions of a former superintendent of the New York State…
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