Althouse: "Civil libertarians should be concerned whenever the government interferes with the lawyer-client relationship."

"Clients should be able to rely on confidentiality when they disclose their most intimate secrets in an effort to secure their legal rights. A highly publicized raid on the president’s lawyer will surely shake the confidence of many clients in promises of confidentiality by their lawyers. They will not necessarily understand the nuances of the confidentiality rules and their exceptions. They will see a lawyer’s office being raided and all his files seized. I believe we would have been hearing more from civil libertarians — the American Civil Liberties Union, attorney groups and privacy advocates — if the raid had been on Hillary Clinton’s lawyer. Many civil libertarians have remained silent about potential violations of President Trump’s rights because they strongly disapprove of him and his policies. That is a serious mistake, because these violations establish precedents that lie around like loaded guns capable of being aimed at other targets."

Writes Alan Dershowitz in "Targeting Trump's lawyer should worry us all."

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Beloved Commenter AReasonableMan said...: Even an extreme partisan such as Andrew McCarthy recognizes that Trump is the primary author of his current problems.

Hanlon's Razor:
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."; 4/11/18, 5:56 AM
donald said...: I’ve been thinking the FBI is corrupt since the mid 70’s Youngheglian and time has proven me right.; 4/11/18, 6:28 AM
donald said...: You must not read much Andrew McCarthy.; 4/11/18, 6:29 AM
American Liberal Elite said...: A license to practice law is not a license to break the law.; 4/11/18, 6:43 AM
MayBee said...: I see on Twitter that NYT is running an opinion piece asking Trump why he is so worried about attorney client privilege if he has nothing to hide.; 4/11/18, 7:13 AM
BJM said...: People are crazy and times are strange
I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range
I used to care, but things have changed...; 4/11/18, 9:13 AM
Brian said...: I see on Twitter that NYT is running an opinion piece asking Trump why he is so worried about attorney client privilege if he has nothing to hide.

Ughh... So Trump was right. Attorney Client privilege is dead. If asserting it means that you are guilty....

Might as well repeal the whole of the Bill of Rights at this point.; 4/11/18, 10:27 AM
Michael K said...: I don't see how this gets any better. The deep state, which has members in both parties, is going to try to run a coup like they did with Nixon. If they succeed, it might be better to be in a place far from big cities for a few years.; 4/11/18, 11:47 AM
Char Char Binks, Esq. said...: Statists rejoice.; 4/11/18, 2:11 PM
Char Char Binks, Esq. said...: The civil libertarians Dershowitz mentions are neither civil nor libertarian. Discuss.; 4/11/18, 2:47 PM
Matt Sablan said...: So, information about the Access Hollywood and cab medallions were also part of the documentation scooped up in this raid/search.

At least we know we're truly at the end game of this fiasco.; 4/11/18, 2:59 PM
Rusty said...: Michael K @ 11:47
There is a subset of the right/classic liberal group that isn't going to go quietly. This might end up in a civil war.
The longer Sessions lets this go on the more it has all the appearance of a coup. It will end badly.; 4/11/18, 4:13 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: I was out to dinner with my daughters.

Too bad your sperm are not motile.

I don't know, Michael K. They seem to move up and down you and your daughters' faces pretty well.; 4/11/18, 6:28 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: I don't see how this gets any better. The deep state, which has members in both parties, is going to try to run a coup like they did with Nixon.

Stunning. To call that a coup is to admit that you have no use for rule of law and prefer a personality cult.

The only way it gets "better" for you - as someone who knows nothing about the law - is to take over every state bar association. It's worth a try, right? You've already tried to take over the courts and the states.

It's amazing that Banana Republicon twats like you even figure that you have a place in this country. You don't.; 4/11/18, 6:31 PM
Gk1 said...: The best part of this super disciplined, highly incorruptible, FBI "taint team" is they waited only 24 hours before leaking to the press what they are looking for. Nice. Yeah, this is all being done on the up and up. If Trump isn't guilty why is he so worried we ransacked his lawyers house with a vacuum cleaner?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/us/politics/michael-cohen-trump-access-hollywood.html; 4/11/18, 8:16 PM
Achilles said...: The Toothless Revolutionary said...

I don't see how this gets any better. The deep state, which has members in both parties, is going to try to run a coup like they did with Nixon.

Stunning. To call that a coup is to admit that you have no use for rule of law and prefer a personality cult.

Nixon was caught covering up a break in by some low level thugs he neither ordered nor knew about until later.

Obama has been caught using the NSA to spy on his political opponents over a period of years.

"Stunning. To call that a coup is to admit that you have no use for rule of law and prefer a personality cult."

Applies perfectly to your idiocy.; 4/12/18, 1:51 PM