As a young lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, David Goldberger defended the rights of Nazis to hold a demonstration in Skokie, Ill., a village that was home to many Jewish residents ...

Most famously, in 1977 the ACLU defended the “Illinois Nazis” of The Blues Brothers fame, a neo-Nazi group in Skokie that wished to march through a Jewish neighborhood full of Holocaust survivors.

When I asked this former staffer if they thought today’s ACLU would still defend the right of neo-Nazis to march in Skokie, Illinois, the landmark ACLU case of 1977, they said “yes” but with ...