If a lawyer acts as both litigation counsel and a political advisor to his client, to what extent do attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine apply?
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During his four years in office, President Donald Trump insidiously poisoned U.S. democracy, and, as
The Washington Post put it, his assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 “utterly fractured the basic level of trust needed to make a political system function at a critical national moment.” Despite the national emergency of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Republicans in the U.S. Congress fought President Joe Biden’s vaccination plans tooth and nail. Even though four hundred and thirty thousand Americans had died of Covid-19, due to Trump’s negligence, the Republicans opposed Biden’s efforts to get hundreds of millions of vaccines out to Americans who wanted and needed them