Three of Trump’s complicitous, and now guilty, lawyers, Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro and Jenna Ellis have agreed to testify—basically against him. The anti-Trump crowd (guilty here, too) applauds it. After all, members of that crowd urgently want Trump to not be president again. And how better to accomplish it than from the mouths of his own lawyers who had falsely spouted Trump’s all-consuming rant that his election was stolen?
Of course, notwithstanding the attorney-client privilege, a lawyer who is presented by his client with a plan to commit a “future” crime can be compelled before a grand jury to give testimony against that client. The courts have long recognized the “crime fraud exception” to the privilege in such instances.
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