The ACLU Leadership · Ira Glasser, Executive Director · Nadine Strossen, President · Laura Murphy, Director of the Washington office · Steven Shapiro, Legal Director · Loren Siegel, Director of Public Education · Barry Steinhardt, Associate Director         The mission of the ACLU is to assure that the Bill of Rights are preserved for each new generation. The Constitution authorizes the government to act. The Bill of rights limits that authority.         The American Civil Liberties Union is the nation's foremost advocate of …showed first 75 words of 535 total…

…showed last 75 words of 535 total…dozen national projects devoted to specific civil liberties issues, such as capital punishment, prisoner's rights, reproductive freedom, and even workplace rights.         The ACLU has more than 60 staff attorney's who work with at least 2,000 volunteer attorney's in handling close to 6,000 cases annually. That makes the Union the largest public interest law firm in the nation. The ACLU appears before the U.S. Supreme Court more than any other organization except the U.S. Department of Justice.