Once a Bastion of Free Speech, the A.C.L.U. Faces an Identity Crisis – The New York Times

Once a Bastion of Free Speech, the A.C.L.U. Faces an Identity Crisis (Published 2021)

An organization that has defended the First Amendment rights of Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan is split by an internal debate over whether supporting progressive causes is more important.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html

Since Mr. Trump’s election, the A.C.L.U. budget has nearly tripled to more than $300 million as its corps of lawyers doubled. The same number of lawyers — four — specialize in free speech as a decade ago.