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9. The Jan. 6th committee knows the law. U can't use attorney-client privilege to break the law.

Reply to empedocles (Original post)

Thu Mar 3, 2022, 10:39 AM

Mar 2022

"But the committee argues that Eastman, an attorney for the Trump campaign, may not claim his conversations with the former president are covered by attorney-client privilege, partly because legal advice rendered with the intention of committing a crime is not protected."