The American Civil Liberties Union has appointed a veteran civil rights lawyer as the new national legal director as it gears up for Donald Trump’s potential return to the White House.
Cecillia Wang, the first woman of color promoted to the role, says the ACLU’s lawyers have been poring over both presidential nominees’ policy pledges for the past 18 months.
“We’ll be looking to bring litigation to check all of Trump’s anti-civil rights, anti-civil liberties impulses, however he tries to implement them through federal policy, and again, presidential overreach,” Wang said in an interview.
Wang, 53, has experience fighting Trump’s ...
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