Photo: Protesters are seen during a rally to protest the executive order that President Donald Trump signed clamping down on refugee admissions and temporarily restricting travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries in New York City on January 29, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/WireImage)
On Thursday, February 9, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) hit one million followers on Twitter. Since the election, the non-profit organization has become a leader in the fight to protect the Constitution. It has honed in on the power of social media to spread the word, with its Facebook following skyrocketing nearly 300% from 700K followers to 2 million. At the same time, it has nearly doubled its membership to 1.2 million, a record for the 97-year-old organization, at the same time.
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Understanding that the fight to protect the Constitution will be won in the court of public opinion as well as in the court of law, the ACLU made their intentions clear three days after the election with a full page ad in The New York Times that warned the President, “We’ll see you in court.”
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The organization has made good on their promise and stepped up to the plate with the first test against the new administration on Saturday, January 28, when the government announced it would begin banning people from seven predominantly Muslim countries in Africa and the Middle East. The ACLU immediately took to the courts, filing for and winning an emergency stay at the Eastern District of New York Courthouse in Brooklyn, New York.
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