Former Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani is asking a federal judge to block prosecutors from reviewing any of the documents seized from his home or office during a raid late last month, The Hill reports.
Giuliani’s lawyers filed a 17-page court motion last week in which they argued that the basis of the seizure was unjustified. The filing was in response to prosecutors’ request for a special master to review the materials seized.
“Before any further review (including by a Special Master) and any further damage is done to the public’s confidence in the confidentiality of their communications with counsel, the issue of the constitutionality and legality of the government’s conduct to this point in the investigation must be resolved,” Giuliani’s attorneys wrote.
As noted by The Hill, “Giuliani’s motion seeks to derail the government’s investigation into his dealings in Ukraine by arguing that prosecutors with the Southern District of New York should have sought materials from him via subpoena.”
Giuliani made similar allegations during a Fox News interview earlier this month, arguing that Trump’s allies were the targets of politically motivated FBI raids meant to damage their public reputations.
“Usually a person who has been a former assistant U.S. attorney, a U.S. attorney, a mayor, the associate attorney general, usually they receive a subpoena — not have their home raided,” Giuliani told Fox News.
“The only lawyers they raid are lawyers for Donald Trump. I can’t think of another lawyer that has been raided other than lawyers for Trump,” he added. “Trump is in a special category because he doesn’t have constitutional rights.”
