Daily Beast: “On Wednesday, the apartment and office of former New York City mayor and Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani were raided by the feds. On Thursday, he picked up the phone and called Alan Dershowitz. ‘I had spoken out a number of times against the raid, [and on Thursday] Giuliani called me and asked me if I would share that view with his lawyers,’ Dershowitz, a celebrity attorney and Democrat who served on then-President Trump’s defense team in the first impeachment trial, said in a phone interview Friday morning. Dershowitz continued that he would be happy to talk to Giuliani’s lawyers about the Fourth Amendment issues surrounding the search of Giuliani’s apartment and the seizure of some of his electronic devices ‘as a sounding board,’ but he noted that he hadn’t heard from his lawyers yet.”

“Dershowitz said he has agreed to offer Giuliani and his team ‘constitutional advice’ following the raid, but isn’t one of his counsels of record. Dershowitz reiterated that his position is that ‘a subpoena should be the first recourse.’ ‘You do a search warrant only when you have reason to believe that the lawyer would destroy evidence,’ Dershowitz said, adding that the Fourth Amendment provides particular protections when it comes to ‘lawyers and doctors and priests – anybody who has privileged information.’ Robert Costello, Giuliani’s lawyer and longtime friend, declined to say whether or not he’d connected with Dershowitz, or had been asked to yet.”