The ACLU Is Suing Wisconsin Over This Trans Issue
Progressive policy ambitions meet practical realities as Americans weigh costs and consequences.
it defended speech and rights regardless of who was unpopular at the moment. That's not what's happening in Wisconsin. This is an organization picking a side in a live political fight over gender policy and dressing it up as a constitutional emergency, the same way it treats basically every progressive cause these days.
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There was a time when the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was actually concerned with defending civil liberties and protecting constitutional rights. Those days are long gone, and the ACLU is now another leftist activist organization that exists to push progressive politics, regardless of civil liberties or constitutional rights.
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it defended speech and rights regardless of who was unpopular at the moment. That's not what's happening in Wisconsin. This is an organization picking a side in a live political fight over gender policy and dressing it up as a constitutional emergency, the same way it treats basically every progressive cause these days.
Nobody serious thinks the ACLU of 2024 operates like the ACLU that defended Nazis' right to march in Skokie because the principle mattered more than the politics. That version of the organization is dead. What's left is a legal arm of the activist left that files lawsuits when Democrats lose a policy argument in a state legislature and can't win it back at the ballot box.
Wisconsin voters and lawmakers are entitled to set policy on this without a national advocacy group parachuting in with a federal complaint every time the outcome displeases them. That's not a defense of anyone's rights being trampled. It's a workaround for losing the argument in the room where it actually counts.
The tell is always the silence. When it's a religious school fighting a mandate, or a parent objecting to what's taught in a classroom, the ACLU is nowhere. The rights only seem to matter when the cause lines up with the party they've quietly become an extension of.
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