It might, but the question becomes, "would the ACLU take it on, knowing that it would benefit the NRA specifically, and conservative activism generally?"Mike1951 wrote:Wouldn't this have been a more appropriate cause for the ACLU?
I don't think they would, unless there were a compelling interest in it for them. Right now, there isn't. The ACLU, despite its claims to non-partisanship, is an extremely liberal organization from a point of view of political ideology. Right now, it's not their ox being gored, so I don't know if they would rise to the occasion or not — but I doubt it. In their favor, the ACLU position on McCain Feingold was decidedly negative back on March 1, 2001. That said, the fairly leftist Brennan Center released a statement 22 days later saying that "Former ACLU Leaders Uniformly Agree on Constitutionality of McCain-Feingold," so the ACLU's position on civil liberties is not consistent, even on the same issue, from one year to the next, nor from issue to issue.