Pros
Really only the name recognition.
Cons
I have never worked in such a toxic environment and with so many coworkers who were unhappy. I wouldn't recommend working here to anyone. The ACLU is also one of the most self aggrandizing institutions I have ever had the displeasure of being in. The attorneys don't respect support staff, management is a mess, and HR is useless. It is appalling how people who work here profit and make a career out of pursuing social justice while at the same time treating their staff in ways antithetical to their public image. Employees are racist, elitist, and transphobic. Their inability to acknowledge and address the ways in which they are invested in, and profit from, power structures is utterly embarrassing. If you work here, you will be disrespected, dehumanized, overworked, underpaid, gaslit, tokenized, and subject to uncomfortable, awkward social interactions.