it just means you don't have knowledge in a particular area.
Judge Wood, using kinder words, told Cohen and Trump's legal teams that "it’s not that you’re not good people. It’s that you’ve miscited the law."
It seems like this is often the issue in debates with the far right these days. It's not that they are bad people. It's just that they have strong opinions based on a weak framework of underlying knowledge. Here's the key: the world is varied; things that seem like truths in one environment will often seem untrue in others. This means that principles likely have exceptions. Or put another way, principles overlap one another, which means one usually has to make choices or compromises where the implementation of one principle damages another.
In this case, it seems like there's a basic ignorance of how attorney-client privilege operates in New York State. Yes, there's a thing called attorney-client privilege. No, it isn't inviolable in the case of conspiratorial criminal conduct. If the client and their attorney are colluding in breaking the law, then there is a reason for the law's officers to set aside the privilege. The administration of the law is also a thing. As is the rule of law.
It's basically the same conversation we keep having. The assertion of universal, inviolable principles. And the piercing of those assertions where the facts are inconvenient.
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