The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU, founded in 1920, is one of the biggest and most influential human rights organizations in history. They have been famous during their entire history for defending people's fundamental constitutional rights.
No better example of this is a case that happened in the 1970's: A group of neo-nazis protested some kind of Holocaust memorial, and were arrested and prosecuted. The ACLU sent one of their lawyers to defend them and he successfully had all the charges dropped, as this was a clear case of freedom of expression protected by the First Amendment.
The kicker? The lawyer in question is Jewish. (When asked about this case in a recent interview, he responded, paraphrasing, "I abhor what these people believe, but they have the same right to free speech as everybody else. That's why I defended them.")
In the past ten-to-twenty years, however, the ACLU has made a complete 180-degree turn on their principles and not only do not support civil liberties and people's fundamental constitutional rights, but on the contrary are opposed to them.
No better example of this than the case of one Chase Strangio, a current lawyer for the ACLU, who a couple of years ago tweeted this, referring to the book "Irreversible Damage" (which is a book criticizing surgical castration operations done on children and teenagers):
"Also stopping the circulation of this book and these ideas is 100% a hill I will die on."
Oh, how has the tune changed.
The current ACLU would never, in a million years, send any of their lawyers to defend some neo-nazis whose freedom of speech is being breached, much less a Jewish lawyer (assuming they would even accept a Jew into their ranks anymore, which I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't).
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