ACLU Defending KKK Before Georgia Supreme Court

Georgia’s highest court will consider the Klu Klux Klan’s attempt to “adopt” a stretch of highway in the state. Transportation officials rejected the white supremacist group’s 2012 request to clean up the section of roadway, which the American Civil Liberties Union is calling an example of “government overreach.” Missouri blocked a similar request from the Klan in 1997, but lost that fight after a lengthy free speech legal battle. “Erecting an [Adopt-A-Highway] Program sign with the KKK’s name on it would have the effect of erecting a sign announcing that ‘the state of Georgia has declared this area Klan Country,” the state wrote in its brief. “Such a statement is absurd and would date this state back decades.”