Alexander Shalom was an assistant public defender in Essex County—where he anticipated spending his entire career, he says—when he tried for a job at the American Civil Liberties Union’s New Jersey chapter.

“’They know you don’t know anything, don’t they?’” Shalom recalled a colleague at the Public Defender’s Office asking when he was brought in for the interview in 2010.

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