ACLU lawyer sides with Trump lawyer Michael Cohen

Published April 17, 2018 9:40pm ET



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.

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