Executive Director Anthony Romero said in a follow-up letter to supporters on Tuesday that the ACLU has raised enough money to put its "Congress as Sheep" ads in newspapers in the home districts of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid next week. The ACLU is taking out the ad space to send a message to congressional Democrats about standing up to the Bush administration on domestic spying, restoring habeas corpus, shutting down Guantanamo prison and other issues.

"If the last 8 months have taught us anything, it’s that Congress will not act to restore our freedoms unless we force them to," Romero said. "That’s why our 'Congress as Sheep' ads have to be the start of something bigger: an all-out ACLU campaign to make sure Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi aren’t leading a Congress that will fail freedom and to put all members of Congress on notice." -- Michael Martinez