Somehow, it is supposed to be a scandal that Sean Hannity asked Michael Cohen for advice

President Trump’s tweet that “Attorney-client confidentiality is dead” was doubly accurate. I concede that Judge Kimba Wood has a law degree and many years of experience and I don’t, but I am still stunned by her cavalier disregard for the protections of lawyer-client confidentiality. She refused a request by President Trump and Michael Cohen’s lawyers to be the first to review documents seized from the lawyer’s office and homes..

Another person whose privacy was shredded by Judge Wood is Sean Hannity. Right there, on the front page of the New York Times and constantly on CNN and MSNBC, the supposedly shocking news that Michael Cohen named Sean Hannity as a client of his when forced to name all of his clients in open court by Judge Kimba Wood. More shocking to me is that a federal judge would so casually force disclosure of any lawyer’s client list, which are not, in my understanding, matters of public record. But Judge Wood, who named no legal reasoning for her ruling, must have some basis in law…one would hope. The question now is moot, since the horse is out of the barn, but the ruling strikes me as wrong-headed.

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