Today’s quote comes to us from Harvard Law Professor, and increasingly disillusioned liberal Democrat, Alan Dershowitz.
Here is what Professor Dershowitz had to say about the raid on President Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen’s law offices yesterday:
“I tell [clients] on my word of honor that what you tell me is sacrosanct. And now they say, just based on probable cause … they can burst into the office, grab all the computers, and then give it to another FBI agent and say, ‘You’re the firewall. We want you now to read all these confidential communications, tell us which ones we can get and which ones we can’t get.’
“If this were Hillary Clinton being investigated and they went into her lawyer’s office, the ACLU would be on every television station in America, jumping up and down.
“The deafening silence from the ACLU and civil libertarians about the intrusion into the lawyer-client confidentiality is really appalling.”
Excellent.
My only point of disagreement is Mr. Dershowitz’s characterization of the raid as “appalling”. It may be 100 times worse than appalling. It may be part of an attempt to overthrow the 2016 election – and I’m not at all sure the words “may be” are necessary.
Alan Dershowitz wins Quote Of the Day Honors, because I doubt anyone could have outlined what happened, and the double standard being applied, any better than he did.
One other note: in doing so, Alan Dershowitz is taking the same path as another well-known educator and legal expert, Jonathan Turley. They are both committed, honest liberal Democrats who circumstances have forced to rethink – not their principles but their loyalties.
I fervently hope there will be a lot more just like them.
