1. Complete seizing of all material.
2. Initial refusal to use “special master”
3. Immediate leaks and in-court announcement of other clients’ identities and info.
4. Tap on the phones, which according to this article captured at least one call with the white house.
This might be the approach to a raid on an accountant, but not on a lawyer. There is supposed to be protection around the attorney-client privilege, but here it is being treated as if this were a simple subordinate role, in which no long established protections exist.
If I am incorrect or overstate the case, please feel free to present your argument. I am not a lawyer, so I may misunderstand more than a little about the law an its sometimes very loose relationship to justice.
You don’t have to be a lawyer to know what the Deep State is doing is illegal/unconstitutional. I wouldn’t doubt at all if White House phones are wiretapped along with all home and cell phones of anyone close to Trump.
Legality does not matter in an impeachment proceeding, it is not a court of law. Trump will not get to exclude evidence obtained illegally. It would not matter anyway because it will already be out in public. All they need is something to impeach Trump on, the repubs will have just enough members go along with it to see it done.
How do you disclose a reluctant client? (For that matter, Cohen and his legal team claimed the third client would suffer embarrassment. Why would Hannity be embarrassed by being represented by Cohen? And was he really a client? To hear him say it, he was more a sounding board than a legal representative.)
What's the value of a wire tap unless it's to capture calls?