Attorney-client privilege went from a sacred trust furiously defended by lefty lawyers to just another “common misconception” when it came to getting Trump.
After targeting Michael Cohen and Rudy Giuliani, it’s no surprise what the Clinton non-independent special counsel’s strategy was . The two indictments filed so far against former President Donald J. Trump — one brought by the Manhattan district attorney, the other by a Justice Department special counsel — charge him with very different crimes but have something in common: Both were based, at least in part, on the words of his own lawyers. In short, attorney-client privilege was once again shredded as it routinely is in totalitarian states. And with it, the Fifth Amendment.
It wasn’t all that long ago that the liberal legal establishment was attacking the FBI for listening in on chats between terrorists and their lawyers. Defenders of Lynne Stewart, […]
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