Posted on 02/14/2023 8:45:28 PM PST by Olog-hai
Justice Department prosecutors investigating the mishandling of classified documents at Donald Trump’s Florida estate are seeking to pierce the attorney-client privilege and want to again question one of the former president’s lawyers before a grand jury, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday night.
The privilege protects lawyers from having to tell prosecutors about confidential conversations their clients have with them. But prosecutors can get around that privilege if they can convince a judge that the communications they want information about were made in furtherance of a crime — a principle known as the crime-fraud exception.
Prosecutors have already questioned M. Evan Corcoran before a grand jury, but he repeatedly invoked attorney-client privilege in declining to answer certain questions, according to the person who spoke with The Associated Press and insisted on anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. They’re seeking to question him again, and want to be able to move past attorney-client privilege, the person said.
The request from prosecutors working with special counsel Jack Smith is expected to lead to closed-door arguments before the chief judge of the District of Columbia federal court about whether prosecutors can compel Corcoran to answer their questions about his conversations with Trump. …
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If I were to post what I’m thinking I’d have the FBI at my door before breakfast.
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Political hackery.
Multi-level Legal System [not much Justice involved there].
I expect that the FBI has already bugged the Confessionals in at least all the parishes that honor traditionalist Catholic values.
They must know this will boomerang.
The Bill of Rights is dead.
Change my mind.
The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.The Bill of Rights is dead only if the left can make you believe it’s dead. They themselves believed it long ago, of course.
— O’Brien, 1984
“The privilege protects lawyers from having to tell prosecutors about confidential conversations their clients have with them.”
But it’s just this one time...
“But prosecutors can get around that privilege if they can convince a judge that the communications they want information about were made in furtherance of a crime — a principle known as the crime-fraud exception.”
Does not a crime have to be proven before it can be determined if there is furtherance of a crime?
If a perp embezzles a million bucks, the crime could be considered “in furtherance” until the money is recovered through a conviction. Will the perp’s attorney have to burn privilege and testify against his client? I think not.
EC
The request from prosecutors working with special counsel Jack Smith is expected to lead to closed-door arguments.
AKA rigging charges judge Roy Bean taps box.
If it ceases to operate then that is an objective measure not a matter of belief.
The power is with the people, not the government. The perception that the government possesses inordinate power is indeed a matter of belief; it’s a matter of disabusing them of their belief.
Let me know when the people begin to exercise their power against the enormous abuses of our rights the government has been engaging in.
I’ll wait.
Read the Declaration of Independence* and think of how that started back then. Was it the people en masse who did it? Were Washington’s troops aided by the New Yorkers, before the regroup and march on Trenton? Experience seems to make it inevitable, although not to come when you may personally want it to.
* Particularly the part where it says “mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable” . . . it’d take perhaps more before they become insufferable and unadaptable to.
I learned all of that 60 years ago.
Still waiting.
For most, the evils are still sufferable because they aren’t personally affected to the degree that it hurts. But if (when) Biden presses on the nerve of power too hard, it may come at a time none of us expect.
I’ve been hearing people predict that the revolution is about to start for at least 45 years. Just one more straw will break the camel’s back.
I’m waiting.
We’re all waiting. The time of such things doesn’t serve the (im)patience of either one of us.
No, I meant I was waiting for you to tell me when the people start using their power.
My original question to you.
I am neither impatient for that nor for the people to push back.
I am also not unaware that the real power lies with the people nor am I unaware of the reasons the people hold their anger in abeyance. I was educated about those things 60 years ago.
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