I know people get pissed about the ACLU defending bigots but they sorta have to once and a while to guarantee there's some legals precedent. Almost all the time they defend marginalized people instead but it doesn't get national news.
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Replying to @wwahammy
They don’t, actually, most of the money they spend on bigots is on issues that are black letter law, and those bigots often jump the queue to get served, whereas marginalized people’s issues aren’t settled law and they aren’t represented until the matters are no longer relevant
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski @wwahammy
Many ACLU-defending-bigots cases fail to set or even reinforce precedent, because few of the cases proceed to actual rulings. Bigots use the ACLU to get PIs and later drop the cases
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
Almost no cases get to actual rulings in any of these cases. Everyone settles.
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Replying to @wwahammy
This statement directly contradicts your claim that the ACLU needs to take on bigots’ cases to establish precedent
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
Sometimes you get legal precedent and more often you create a bit of fear in bad municipalities.
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Replying to @wwahammy
Well thanks for establishing that the terror attacks I narrowly survived were a necessary bit of fear in a bad municipality
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
Ya, that was wildly out of line for the ACLU and you know I wasn't arguing about that.
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Replying to @wwahammy
It wasn’t out of line. It was so in line with what they do that they applied a pre-canned formula with less than 72 hours preparation and succeeded
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
I mean, it was morally out of line and shameful. They didn't investigate properly and that's on them.
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I don’t know how else to tell you that this is the pattern of behavior the ACLU takes with regards to bigots’ cases. They are almost always 1A cases with a pressing need for time that doesn’t allow for investigation, and they almost always jump the queue
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