Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday granted Donald Trump's lawyers a hearing on attorney-client privilege, further delaying the former president's classified documents case. This is true to form for the Trump-appointed judge, who has been criticized for entertaining even the most frivolous requests from Trump's legal team and playing into his strategy to hold off a trial until after the election.
This time Trump's lawyers requested a hearing over whether prosecutors improperly breached attorney-client privilege when they obtained evidence from Trump's ex-lawyers, part of a larger effort to suppress evidence that could incriminate their client. While defense lawyers are normally shielded from testifying about conversations with their client, the crime-fraud exception holds that they can be compelled to do so if prosecutors show that their legal services abetted a crime.
