Sometimes, the ACLU is all that has stood between a democracy and a Trump dictatorship

As soon as he took office, Donald Trump began trying to dismantle the U.S. Constitution.

First came his ill-conceived “Muslim ban,” followed by his ill-conceived family separation plan, his ill-conceived attempt to prevent pregnant women in immigration detention from receiving abortions, his ill-conceived attempt to kick transgender soldiers out of the military and his ill-conceived attempt to add a citizenship question to the census.

As you can imagine, the ACLU has had its hands full for the past three and a half years.

In all of those cases, it has...