Former Chairman of the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct and practicing lawyer Raoul Felder compared the raid on Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to McCarthyism in an op-ed in the New York Law Journal.
“Lawyers better wake up!” Felder begins in the piece, calling the action to seize private, privileged attorney-client records “appalling” whether readers liked Trump or hated him.
Citing attorney-client privilege case law, Felder pointed out that unelected federal prosecutors should not be able to access these records for any reason and said he would “lay across” his own private client files “and die before anyone could get them and know what clients told me, in the naïve belief that they are privileged.”
“Do we want a bunch of prosecutors running our country? That did not seem to work in the Salem witch trials, the McCarthyism inquisitions nor for Mr. Robespierre,” Felder argued.
“The only assault on our democracy seems to be from a by now desperate special counsel chasing vague shadows who should be gone,” Felder finished, referring to accusations by porn star Stormy Daniels that she had an affair with President Donald Trump a decade before he took office. “It is a disgrace.”
Felder is a registered independent and former federal prosecutor.
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