ACLU sides with Trump against gag order given in federal criminal case

Liberal human rights group says order given by federal judge is overly broad and deprives Trump of his free speech rights

The American Civil Liberties Union free speech watchdog has sided with Donald Trump against a gag order that he was given in the federal criminal case over US election interference, saying the order violates the first amendment.

The liberal human rights group, a bastion of the anti-Trump resistance in recent years, is a strange bedfellow for the Republican former president, though the ACLU has a long history of defending the speech rights of those it doesn’t agree with. The group notably has defended neo-Nazis who wanted to march in Skokie, Illinois; the National Rifle Association and the Ku Klux Klan.