Michael Cohen goes to the Supreme Court against Trump

Does the president of the United States have the power to throw you in prison?

That is the test, says Michael Cohen, of the petition submitted to the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

"The Constitution is the bedrock of our democratic republic and is what makes America the beacon of the world," Cohen says.

"To have a President weaponize the DOJ...is how autocracies are created."

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Cohen, former President Trump's controversial long-time lawyer and fixer, is asking the court to hear his claim that he was sent back behind bars, shackled and placed in solitary confinement on the alleged orders of Trump and Justice Department officials in July 2020 in retaliation for his writing his first tell all book, "Revenge: How Donald Trump Weaponized The US Department of Justice Against His Critics."

"Presidents are not kings," says the petition. "This case represents the principle that presidents and their subordinates can lock away critics of the executive without consequence. That cannot be the law in the country the Founders thought they created when they threw off the yoke of the monarch."

In 2020, U.S. Federal Court Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein found that the Trump administration violated Cohen's First Amendment rights when it sent him back behind bars after he was released to home confinement.

"The purpose of transferring Mr. Cohen from furlough and home confinement to jail is retaliatory," the judge said during a hearing on Cohen's reimprisonment.

"It's retaliatory because of his desire to exercise his First Amendment rights to publish a book and to discuss anything about the book or anything else he wants on social media and with others."

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