The American Civil Liberties Union free speech watchdog has sided with Donald Trump against a gag order that he was given in the federal criminal case over US election interference, saying the order violates the first amendment.
The liberal human rights group, a bastion of the anti-Trump resistance in recent years, is a strange bedfellow for the Republican former president, though the ACLU has a long history of defending the speech rights of those it doesn’t agree with. The group notably has defended neo-Nazis who wanted to march in Skokie, Illinois; the National Rifle Association; and the Ku Klux Klan.
