Morris Ernst
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Morris Leopold Ernst (1888 – 1976) was an American lawyer and co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Ernst practised law in New York, and in 1915 co-founded the law firm Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst. In 1917, he helped found the National Civil Liberties Bureau, which would later become the American Civil Liberties Union.
In 1933, he successfully defended James Joyce's banned novel Ulysses against obscenity charges, leading to its unbanning.
Ernst was a strong supporter of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, and in 1940, as head of the ACLU, he agreed to bar communists from employment there and even discouraged their membership.
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