The ACLU’s embarrassing case for government-compelled speech

By Conn Carroll

Published December 5, 2022 4:15pm ET

American Civil Liberties Union. | (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

David Cole, the national legal director for the ACLU, has an op-ed out Monday that reads, “The ACLU has been this nation’s leading defender of free speech for more than a century. We firmly believe that states cannot compel artists or anyone else to express messages with which they disagree. But…”