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*Shapiro, Ben (June 22, 2018). [https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/393557-aclus-diminishing-interest-in-free-speech-marks-a-foreboding-shift-in ACLU's diminishing interest in free speech marks a foreboding shift in American culture]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved June 22, 2018.

*Shapiro, Ben (June 22, 2018). [https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/393557-aclus-diminishing-interest-in-free-speech-marks-a-foreboding-shift-in ACLU's diminishing interest in free speech marks a foreboding shift in American culture]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved June 22, 2018.

*Wolfe, Liz (June 22, 2018). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/why-im-no-longer-giving-to-the-aclu Why I'm no longer giving to the ACLU]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved June 22, 2018.

*Wolfe, Liz (June 22, 2018). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/why-im-no-longer-giving-to-the-aclu Why I'm no longer giving to the ACLU]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved June 22, 2018.

*Ciccotta, Tom (June 21, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/06/21/wsj-the-aclu-has-abandoned-free-expression/ WSJ: The ACLU Has Abandoned First Amendment]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved June 22, 2018.</ref> It broke its own rules in 2018 to publically oppose the confirmation of [[Originalism|originalist]] Judge [[Brett Kavanaugh]].<ref>Gstalter, Morgan (September 29, 2018). [https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/409081-aclu-breaks-its-own-policy-comes-out-against-kavanaugh ACLU breaks its own policy, comes out against Kavanaugh nomination]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved September 29, 2018.</ref>

*Ciccotta, Tom (June 21, 2018). [https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/06/21/wsj-the-aclu-has-abandoned-free-expression/ WSJ: The ACLU Has Abandoned First Amendment]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved June 22, 2018.</ref> It broke its own rules in 2018 to publicly oppose the confirmation of [[Originalism|originalist]] Judge [[Brett Kavanaugh]].<ref>Gstalter, Morgan (September 29, 2018). [https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/409081-aclu-breaks-its-own-policy-comes-out-against-kavanaugh ACLU breaks its own policy, comes out against Kavanaugh nomination]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved September 29, 2018.</ref>

==History==

==History==

Three years after that, in 1931, a special committee of the U.S. House of Representatives concurred:

Three years after that, in 1931, a special committee of the U.S. House of Representatives concurred:

{{cquote|The American Civil Liberties Union has received large sums from the Garland Fund, of which Roger N. Baldwin is one of its directors. During the trial of the Communists in Gastonia, not for freedom of speech, of the press or assembly, but for a conspiracy to kill the chief of police, of which seven defendants were convicted, the ACLU provided bail for five of the defendants, amounting to $28,500, which it secured from the Garland Fund. All of the defendants convicted jumped their bail and are reported to be in Russia.<ref>House of Representatives. Special Committee to Investigate Communist Activities in the United States. United States. Congress (71st, Investigation of Communist Propaganda. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Govt. print. off., 1931). Cf. Allan H. Ryskind, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20060109190645/http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=9669 George Clooney’s Clueless Movie], ''Human Evants'', October 2005</ref>}}

{{cquote|The American Civil Liberties Union has received large sums from the Garland Fund, of which Roger N. Baldwin is one of its directors. During the trial of the Communists in Gastonia, not for freedom of speech, of the press or assembly, but for a conspiracy to kill the chief of police, of which seven defendants were convicted, the ACLU provided bail for five of the defendants, amounting to $28,500, which it secured from the Garland Fund. All of the defendants convicted jumped their bail and are reported to be in Russia.<ref>House of Representatives. Special Committee to Investigate Communist Activities in the United States. United States. Congress (71st), Investigation of Communist Propaganda. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Govt. print. off., 1931). Cf. Allan H. Ryskind, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20060109190645/http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=9669 George Clooney’s Clueless Movie], ''Human Evants'', October 2005</ref>}}

The ACLU's founding members were [[Roger Baldwin]], [[Crystal Eastman]], [[Walter Nelles]], [[Morris Ernst]], [[Albert DeSilver]], [[Arthur Garfield Hays]], [[Helen Keller]], [[Jane Addams]], [[Felix Frankfurter]], and [[Elizabeth Gurley Flynn]]. Baldwin, the driving force behind the ACLU in its early years, testified in 1938 that he had expressed his views in the Harvard Classbook three years previously as follows:

The ACLU's founding members were [[Roger Baldwin]], [[Crystal Eastman]], [[Walter Nelles]], [[Morris Ernst]], [[Albert DeSilver]], [[Arthur Garfield Hays]], [[Helen Keller]], [[Jane Addams]], [[Felix Frankfurter]], and [[Elizabeth Gurley Flynn]]. Baldwin, the driving force behind the ACLU in its early years, testified in 1938 that he had expressed his views in the Harvard Classbook three years previously as follows: