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    Former ACLU lawyer to lead U.S. Justice Department civil rights unit

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union will assume a top civil rights post at the U.S. Justice Department, taking control of a unit that is deep into investigations into the Ferguson, Missouri police department and battles over voting rights.

    Vanita Gupta, who was the deputy legal director of the ACLU, will become the acting assistant attorney general for the DOJ's civil division, the Justice Department said on Wednesday. The White House is also expected to nominate her to formally lead the unit, a person familiar with the discussions said.

    The division has been without a confirmed head for more than a year, after the former top official, Thomas Perez, was approved to become Labor secretary.
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    Sounds like a breath of fresh air to me.

    I'll take a civil libertarian over an authoritarian A.G. like Janet Reno or Eric Holder any day of the week.
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    Agreed. If nothing else, at least the ACLU supports gun rights, unlike Holder and the rest of his cronies in the Justice Department. The downside is the ACLU, like the die hard Liberal elites seem keen on going on these witch hunts for "racists".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aggressive Perfector View Post
    If nothing else, at least the ACLU supports gun rights,
    Sort of. They actually take a hypocritical "neutral" stance on the Second Amendment, not defending it like they do with the other rights -- they just defer and let the NRA handle that one.

    But yeah, at least they're not actively pushing gun control or anything like so many left-leaning groups are these days.

    They have come to the aid of many gun owners when their other rights (free speech, illegal search and seizure, etc.) were in jeopardy though, but some of their biggest urban donors are heavily anti-gun, so the best they can do is stand silent when it comes to Second Amendment concerns.
    "That tyranny has all the vices both of democracy and oligarchy is evident. As of oligarchy so of tyranny, the end is wealth; (for by wealth only can the tyrant maintain either his guard or his luxury). Both mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms." -- Aristotle, Book V, 350 B.C.E

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    For the most part you're correct. They have teamed up with the NRA on a few lawsuits against the feds though. Including one alleging that the feds were compiling a gun registry.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aggressive Perfector View Post
    For the most part you're correct. They have teamed up with the NRA on a few lawsuits against the feds though. Including one alleging that the feds were compiling a gun registry.
    Very true. As more authoritarian encroachment against gun rights comes down the pike, especially measures that impact other individual rights as well, I think the ACLU and NRA are going to be bedfellows all the more often in these coming years ahead...
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    I can't see someone from aclu being in any sense a libertaian.
    Or a supporter of the constitution.
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    They are stalwart defenders of the First and Fourth Amendments, which are just as important as the Second, my friend.

    They've taken a lot of heat for defending free speech rights of unpopular groups like communist/anarchists in the early days, to far-right groups like neo-Nazis more recently.

    They do a lot to promote the Eighth Amendment as well, when it comes to prisoner rights and people living in unsanitary/abusive conditions.

    So understandably they take a lot of flak for defending such minority groups. But that's the whole point of the Bill of Rights: to defend the minority against the tyranny of the majority. That's why our Founders were so wise to craft those amendments the way they did.
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    ^Nail on the head.
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