The American Civil Liberties Union has, for decades, been a pillar of the Left. But the organization at least made an effort to position itself as a consistent defender of free speech, privacy, due process, and other freedoms. But in the latest partisan shift in an internal avalanche, the ACLU is now opposing efforts by the Trump administration to advance the cause of due process on college campuses. In doing so, it has abandoned any claim to being a principled defender of civil liberties and revealed itself as little more than a front group for the Democratic Party.

We previously endorsed Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s new Title IX rules, released May 6, which were intended to restore fairness to campus sexual assault proceedings which had often descended into kangaroo courts under the Obama administration’s policies. As we noted then, the Trump administration’s changes protect victims and respect survivors while also ensuring that accused students have the right to cross-examine their accuser, aren’t subjected to a single investigator’s whims, and can have counsel by their side.