Nobody ever gets disbarred here. It’s every American attorney’s god-given right to be shadier than Saul Goodman.
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No client. No client. You’re the client.
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more like an elephant walk, clockwise-going
I think he just about keeps the option open - but he’s certainly shut down most of them.
As I understand US attorney-client privilege requires:
- The person asserting privilege was or sought to become a client;
- the person to whom the information was given was an attorney or employed by one and was acting as an attorney when receiving the information;
- the purpose of providing the information was to receive legal advice.
So basically if you call a lawyer looking for representation, you can tell them what the problem is and if they say they don’t deal with that sort of work or you decide their fee is too high or whatever, you can still assert privilege even though they never became ‘your’ attorney.
“I have occasionally had brief discussions with him about legal questions about which I wanted his input and perspective.”
Those could be privileged communications, they could just be shooting the breeze.
It’s the difference between saying “Hey Mike, I might need a lawyer. X, Y and Z happened, is that legal?” and “You know Mike, I never really understood this emoluments clause stuff that the fake news people keep going on about, what’s that all about?”
The one is probably privileged. The second is just a general discussion and probably not privileged.
Sounds like Hannity is claiming to be the usual run of the mill jerk most lawyers, doctors and accountants learn to try and avoid at parties. The ones who collar you to tell you all about their problem with their neighbour, the funny rash on their genitals or how the tax man is screwing them over.
Fun fact: doctors and accountants normally only get one of those - as a lawyer people will tell you about all of them!
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“The Sovereign belief system. … At some point in history, sovereigns believe, the American government set up by the founding fathers — with a legal system the sovereigns refer to as “common law” — was secretly replaced by a new government system based on admiralty law, the law of the sea and international commerce.”
The gold braid on the flag is the irrefutable evidence.
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Not necessarily. A lawyer doesn’t need to charge money to give legal advice. I this his statement was worded in a way that suggests he requested legal advice and received legal advice so it may be privileged.
Not that I’m infatuated with Shepard Smith, but I have to think that at least some of the people who are trying to do news at Fox News just hate Hannity.
Well, sort of. I think both of these things could be true:
- Michael Cohen is telling the truth when he says Sean Hannity was his client
- Every word of Sean Hannity’s statement is technically true in some sense (though in a way that would make us go “Oh come on!”)
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I read somewhere yesterday an actual screenwriter saying that they would never pen a work this absurd because it would never even be considered for being so outlandish. Yet, here we are…
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The Illuminati is just a false flag diversion from the true rulers of the earth.
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I must admit, I’m a sucker for sets of little symbols as shown in that article.
Do chameleons’ eyes change colour, though?
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He does have a long record, a career really, of incorrectly claiming exactly that.
I believe that all of these words that Sean Hannity is using are the literal truth.
I also believe that Michael Cohen was paid under the table with no invoices, was never paid for legal representation services, wasn’t retained in a capacity as a lawyer, and was paid for the same kind of thing Trump paid him for: to be a bagman / gofer / thug / wiseguy.
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He said:
- never “represented”
- never “retained in a traditional sense”
- never received an invoice
- never paid legal fees
This might be straight up lies (it really might be). If it isn’t then there is room for weaseling:
- on the specific meaning of “represented” in a legal sense vs. a plain language sense;
- “in a traditional sense”
- paid legal fees (may still have given him money)
People love to weasel out of things. I honestly don’t get it. If you are in trouble either fess up or lie. I’ve never really seen what is gained by intentionally misleading people by saying things that are narrowly true. I feel like it’s usually very damning (like Rob Ford’s, “I do not smoke crack cocaine and have never been an addict of crack cocaine”).
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Occam’s Razor and “the Jugular” shouldn’t be mixed lightly, nor by ass-faced clowns.
Has anyone run Trump through that test?
It’s also weird when you remember there was a time when David Icke was sane
That was all before he started wearing turquoise and claiming he was the son of God on British television.
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