I felt the need to post this to ensure we were all aware of our current biases that just because Trump is in office these things are bad and deserve attention.

I believe the ACLU is great and I've contributed for years before Trump. And that is my subtle point: Trump isn't what makes these things bad or important. They're important on their own. The ACLU should have been donated to before Trump because the issues they are fighting for are not new under Trump, even if they may have more issues to protect under Trump. This is not one of them. And we as readers need to recognize that "...in Trump's America" is nonsense added to boost page numbers because it has been our America for a long time already.

So, therefore, I do not disagree ACLU has been more active. In fact, the question is why weren't they so active before? Personally, I don't think that's a great question either since I'm not sure a case exactly like this happened before so it's moot and if it did I'm almost certain they would have acted on it. But would the press have picked it up like it did? Would it say "...in [Obama's|Bush's] America" at the end? I doubt it.