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Cohen, who served as Trump’s longtime fixer and attorney, was sentenced toin 2018 on charges including campaign finance violations and lying to Congress. He was released early in 2020 during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, but he was jailed once more and placed in solitary confinement for two weeks after he announced plans to write a book critical of his former boss.
“As it stands, this case represents the principle that presidents and their subordinates can lock away critics of the executive without consequence,” he continued. “That cannot be the law in the country the Founders created.”Spencer Platt via Getty Imagesof broad immunity for any action he took while in office, throwing his various criminal trials into chaos for months leading up to the November election.
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