The Koch brothers gave $20 million to the ACLU to fight the Patriot Act, but only $43,000 to Scott Walker’s $11 million campaign for governor of Wisconsin.  Now, these libertarian brothers who support drug legalization and cuts in defense spending have been falsely branded as the puppetmasters behind Walker and Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. (The Kochs have never met or spoken with Walker. They’re Libertarians, not conservatives. One of the Koch brothers was the Libertarian Party’s vice presidential nominee in 1980, running against Reagan).

Leading the charge to vilify the Kochs is the Alliance for Justice, which is headed by Nan Aron, a former ACLU staff attorney; the Alliance for Justice is a coalition partner of the ACLU. Along with the ACLU and  Common Cause, the Alliance for Justice recently helped organize a “protest action” against the Kochs, at which demonstrators called for the lynching of Clarence Thomas.