Note that everyone else with legal training provided info. only. Giving a definitive answer would depend on myriad facts and knowledge. Knowledge that cannot be known from the OP's question alone.
I have no idea why the ACLU is in play. I have worked for the ACLU. The ACLU is a repeat player with expertise in civil rights and civil liberties. They have, on occasion, represented the ACLU, particularly in the Rutherford era knock on door and flag salute cases. The vast majority of ACLU lawyers are law professors and associates/partners at large corporate firms. It gives the firms valuable litigation experience, a change from representing corporations, and a chance to perhaps go up to the Supreme Court. Most American interests have, at time, been represented by the ACLU. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund is anothe repeat player. The Jewish organizations are other frequent litigants.
I'm sorry. The vibrancy here appeals to me. Hearing about Knorr, Franz, Henschel, Larson --brings back memories of sitting around the kitchen table. I don't dumb myself down. I don't think people would appreciate my cutting and pasting law review articles here. As a member of the bar, something someone else is not, and a person who until recently had a wide range of live clients, I care about the law. There is a right way and a wrong way.
TV lawyers exist only on TV. Most of the law is spent hunched over law books for hours or hunched over a computer monitor. The moments they show on TV are very rare. Imagine a TV show where people spend hours on end reading relatively boring content. I feared that I could never shoot my mouth off the way Perry Mason did. Or even those lawyers on The Good Wife. I found out there is a process and after you've researched for days with a complete fact pattern, you can form some conclusions. Those lawyers on Nancy Grace, etc. screaming answers are only screaming. Working in a real firm, I have a different take. Where I once shouted obvious answers, I keep my mouth shut. Maybe in the MIddle Ages, a bright student at the Inns of Court could know instantly. I doubt it but maybe. Law is complex.
As I posted before, you have two legal models before you. Someone fortunate to graduate from a great school, who garnered good enough grades to work for the U.S. Attorney's Office and a large Wall Street law firm. Someone who worked on Supreme Court cases --hardly the lead lawyer. I assume my posts may be searched. And you have the I know everything model from somone who is NOT a lawyer who knows ALL that can be possibly KNOWN.