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"The evidence is not protected. And just why would the judicial care about anything that was not pertinent to the criminal case against him. "

Indeed. Or the administration either.

So we can agree that removing the legislative work- which cannot be questioned in any other place- is no loss.

All the DOJ wants is the material that is evidence for the bribery case. They don't want the privileged material. The only problem was how to separate it from the evidence- which isn't privileged.
I wish the opinion was available, it sounds like the court that issued the warrant has a whole lot of work ahead of it.

"... secrecy..." certainly has it's drawbacks but, it's been wisely said that legislating is like making sausage...
In the case of legislative privilege the secrecy is to protect the legislature from being blackmailed and bullied by the other branches to thwart the will of the people.