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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPlease let the ACLU know that Impeachment Trial Censorship Is What The ACLU is born to fight.
On the ACLU's Facebook page, I'm calling them out
-- for being "concern" trolls, AND NOT GOING TO COURT;
-- for only "asking" the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms (??) and Rules Committee (??) to change their "rules," AND NOT GOING TO COURT; and
-- for not scrambling to take the Senate's censoring of the press TO COURT.
The courts can't make the Senate's rules, but the courts can damn sure make sure that those rules do NOT stop the Constitution at the Senate door, or their whole trial obstructs justice.
If the ACLU doesn't stand up for the First Amendment rights of The People and a Free Press during the third impeachment trial in U.S. history -- and right now they're NOT -- then they've failed to do what they were born to do.
What good do they really do for The People, for whom the longest standing democracy in recorded human history was founded?!
Come ON, ACLU! Get moving to a federal court!
jimfields33
(16,044 posts)But the judges will just say that the senate controls the impeachment trial. The ACLU should do it anyway for exposure.
ancianita
(36,168 posts)overruling the Constitution.
Constitutional rights don't stop at the door of Congress.
The Congress TAKES AN OATH to protect and defend the Constitution -- ALL Amendments, not just the ones they choose.
This IS a Big F'n Deal and should be hollered across all media in this country.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I might be missing something, but I honestly don't understand how the republicans are getting away with this. It is complete lawlessness. It is so wrong and so clearly an admission of guilt.
Dukkha
(7,341 posts)After Charlottesville in 2017 I tore up my ACLU card and mailed it back to them with explicit instructions.
ancianita
(36,168 posts)The ACLU is NOT BROKE. NOT UNDERSTAFFED.
They can certainly pull SOME of their 300 staff lawyers and 1,000 volunteer lawyers out for THIS unconstitutional move by this Senate to hold an unconstitutionally framed sham trial.
onenote
(42,796 posts)Second what Constitutional right is being violated?