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A.C.L.U.’s Legal Director to Step Down After Eight Turbulent Years
It was the spring of 2016, and the American Civil Liberties Union was looking for a new national legal director. David D. Cole, a law professor at Georgetown, recalled the pitch. “Just think what it’d be like to lead the A.C.L.U. and its Supreme Court …