The American Civil Liberties Union bills itself as "the nation’s premier defender of the rights enshrined in the U.S. Constitution," defending "individual freedoms including speech and religion, a woman’s right to choose, the right to due process, citizens’ rights to privacy and much more . . . even when the cause is unpopular, and sometimes when nobody else will."
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