Defending the ACLU dissidents

The New York Times reports:

The American Civil Liberties Union is weighing new standards that would discourage its board members from publicly criticizing the organization's policies and internal administration.

"Where an individual director disagrees with a board position on matters of civil liberties policy, the director should refrain from publicly highlighting the fact of such disagreement," the committee that compiled the standards wrote in its proposals. ...

Well, now, who’ll defend the ACLU board dissidents’ right to free speech?

Certainly not the ACLU. There isn’t a prayer of that, if you’ll excuse the expression.

And I don’t expect Moveon.org to move in and say they’ll fund the dissidents’ legal defense.

But The Federalist Society! Now there’s the group to lead the defense.

And do it pro bono. It would be a great national service.

Imagine attorneys who were once law clerks of Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Alito striding shoulder-to-shoulder with the ACLU dissidents into a federal courthouse to defend the dissidents and demand they be granted whistleblower status.

I can’t wait. I hope C-SPAN covers it all.

Hat Tip: Betsy Newmark