ACLU to Tell Board to Shut Up?

The ACLU may soon prohibit its board members from... criticizing the ACLU and its employees.

Naturally, several current and former ACLU board members are speaking out against the proposal.

To their credit -- while critical of the proposal in today's New York Times -- not one of these dissenting current or former board members improperly invented a constitutional right to free speech on others' property or time (what Jacob Sullum has referred to as a mistaken impression of some that the First Amendment gives one "a right to give speeches in [someone else's] living room.")

Though The Times doesn't come out and say it, this controversy seems to have at its root the fact that ACLU executive director Anthony D. Romero may be a crazed tyrant.