...The Center for Constitutional Rights, along with the New York Civil Liberties Union, led the charge against the City in the federal stop and frisk litigation.

“Let’s be clear, the NYCLU’s priority is not protecting our safety. It is protecting their ideology. And in that regard, they are no better than the NRA,” Bloomberg told another church congregation in the summer of 2012. “One group views the Second Amendment in absolutist terms; the other group views the Fourth Amendment in absolutist terms. Both groups, I think, are dangerously wrong on the Constitution.” ...

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