The ACLU, which has opposed only four Supreme Court nominees in its 100-year history, may come out against its first non-white male nominee should U.S. Circuit Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett remain at the top of President Donald Trump's list of potential nominees.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which has opposed only four Supreme Court nominees in its 100-year history, may feel obliged to come out against its first non-white male nominee should U.S. Circuit Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett remain the top choice of President Donald Trump.
The decision on whether to oppose Barrett comes after the death last Friday of Ginsburg, who was the co-founder of the Women's Rights Project at the ACLU and an icon of U.S. equality movements. Barrett, 48, co-signed a 2015 letter to Catholic bishops that confirmed her belief in the"value of human life from conception to natural death.
ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero explained in 2005 that Alito had"written a series of troubling decisions on race, religion and reproductive rights while sitting on the federal appeals court…his record shows a willingness to support government actions that abridge individual freedoms...at a time when our president [George W. Bush] has claimed unprecedented authority to spy on Americans and jail terrorism suspects indefinitely.
While on a three-woman panel of judges between 2018 and 2019, Barrett ruled that a male Purdue University student accused of sexual assault may have been discriminated against because of his gender. The student, identified only as John Doe, had been suspended from the school for a year and lost his position in the Navy ROTC program as a result of the allegation from the victim, identified as Jane Doe.
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