Posted on 02/20/2023 11:56:27 AM PST by bitt
Justice Department prosecutors asked a federal judge to compel one of Trump's lawyers to testify
Fox News host Mark Levin tore into special counsel Jack Smith for going after former President Trump's right to attorney-client privilege.
Justice Department prosecutors on Tuesday asked a federal judge to compel one of Trump's lawyers, M. Evan Corcoran, to answer more questions before a grand jury regarding the former president's handling of classified documents. Prosecutors cited the crime-fraud exception as a way to circumvent the attorney-client privilege.
This exception, Levin said, is used if prosecutors believe a client is seeking advice from an attorney to assist with the furtherance of a crime or fraud.
"Then the communication is said not to be privileged. So the prosecution goes to a judge and says, 'look, I've got evidence here that basically this is a ruse, that, in fact, the client is using the attorney to perpetrate an ongoing crime and fraud,'" he explained on "Life Liberty & Levin."
Levin argued attorney-client privilege is a fundamental right protected under the Bill of Rights and crucial to a functioning government.
He called out Smith for trying to pierce it, saying he has a "wildly broad interpretation of obstruction."
"I don't have to read tea leaves. I see what he's doing, and he wants to make an obstruction case, but he wants to violate a principle that applies to all of us when it comes to justice and lawyers," he said.
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