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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/04/somehow_it_is_supposed_to_be_a_scandal_that_sean_hannity_asked_michael_cohen_for_advice_on_real_estate_law.htmlby Thomas Lifson
President Trump's tweet that "attorney-client confidentiality is dead" was doubly accurate. I concede that Judge Kimba Wood has a law degree and many years of experience and I don't, but I am still stunned by her cavalier disregard for the protections of lawyer-client confidentiality. She refused a request by President Trump and Michael Cohen's lawyers to be the first to review documents seized from the lawyer's office and homes:
While Judge Wood did not formally rule on which side should get the initial look and said that discussions would continue, she added that she trusted the prosecutors.
"I have faith in the Southern District U.S. attorney's office that their integrity is unimpeachable," Judge Wood said.
Excuse me, Judge Wood, but our constitutional protections are not founded on the "unimpeachable integrity" of government officials. The Founders designed a system in which checks and balances, not the virtue of our rulers, protect us. Has the expression "rogue prosecutor" never crossed her lips?
Another person whose privacy was shredded by Judge Wood is Sean Hannity. Right there, on the front page of the New York Times and constantly on CNN and MSNBC, is the supposedly shocking news that Michael Cohen named Sean Hannity when forced to name all of his clients in open court by Judge Kimba Wood. More shocking to me is that a federal judge would so casually force disclosure of any lawyer's client list, which is not, in my understanding, a matter of public record. But Judge Wood, who named no legal reasoning for her ruling, must have some basis in law...one would hope. The question now is moot, since the horse is out of the barn, but the ruling strikes me as wrong-headed.
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