The ACLU was born in 1920 when a small group of idealists challenged then-Attorney General Mitchell Palmer’s order that thousands of people branded foreign…
In a broad sense, tests of attitudes aren’t unprecedented. Doris Meissner, a former commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, notes that an ideological…
Back in the day the U.S. responded by shutting out the world. The Wilson Administration’s Justice Department took the most flagrant action, instituting the…