Stormy Daniels’s lawyer Michael Avenatti is filing a motion asking a federal judge in California for permission to question President Trump and his personal lawyer Michael Cohen for a maximum of two hours about the nondisclosure agreement the adult film actress said she signed about an alleged affair with Trump 10 years ago.
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Daniel’s Law was eventually blocked in the Senate over concerns that it did not extend the same protections to members of Congress. There is no reason congressional protections cannot be addressed in separate legislation. The need for Daniel’s Law is urgent, and addressing one necessity should not be delayed because of a separate need to solve another.
We cannot shield judges from all threats but we can take sensible measures to secure their sensitive information from public view. One judge has already buried her son. Federal action is needed to spread these protections across the country.