Former ACLU leaders blast ‘appalling’ anti-Brett Kavanaugh ad campaign

By Steven Nelson

Published October 4, 2018 4:00am ET

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Former ACLU leaders blast ‘appalling’ anti-Brett Kavanaugh ad campaign — Brett Kavanaugh, U.S. Supreme Court associate justice nominee, arrives for a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. | (Aaron P. Bernstein/Bloomberg)

Former American Civil Liberties Union leaders say the group is making a serious mistake in opposing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh with a $1 million ad buy focused on sexual misconduct allegations.

“They are not civil libertarians. They are serving a different master now,” said former ACLU vice president Michael Meyers, who served on the group’s national board from 1981 to 2005.

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