A lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union sided with President Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen on Tuesday, saying a judge should allow a neutral party to review the documents the FBI seized from Cohen's office.
ACLU lawyer Brett Max Kaufman agreed with Cohen's lawyers in a blog post that it makes no sense for the government itself to decide which files it can keep and use in an attempt to prosecute Cohen and which files it should ignore.
"Such files should be reviewed in the first instance by a neutral party, or 'special master,' appointed by and answerable to the court, to ensure that the prosecutors and investigators get the evidence they are authorized to look for," Kaufman wrote. "They should not be allowed to roam widely through digital files that may contain terrabytes of private information."
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2 comments:
Checks and balances are dead. Our forefathers continue to roll over in their graves. The President and Executive branch should not have their fingers entwined in the Judicial.
I am surprised that the members of Congress are not
up in arms" about this illegal breach of Attorney-Client privilege. Most of them are Attorneys and it affects them directly.... Now that a precedent has been set, they are all subject to this same outrage....
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