Alan Dershowitz slams FBI raid on Rudy Giuliani’s apartment
“In banana republics, in Castro‘s Cuba, in many parts of the world when a candidate loses for president, they go after the candidate, they go after his lawyers, they go after his friends,” Dershowitz
told host John Catsimatidis Sunday on the “Cats Roundtable” podcast.
“That’s happening in America now. They’re going after Rudy Giuliani,” he continued, noting that Giuliani was the former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York in the 1980s.
Dershowitz argued that a subpoena would have been more appropriate, given that Giuliani might keep privileged information from his own clients at his home.
“A search warrant on a lawyer or a doctor or a priest? You don’t use search warrants,” he said.
“You don’t use search warrants when people have privileged information on their cell phones and in their computers. You use a subpoena. The difference between a subpoena and a search warrant is like night and day … It’s just not constitutional,” he said.
Federal prosecutors are reportedly looking into whether Giuliani illegally lobbied for Trump on behalf of officials and oligarchs in Ukraine.