The issue focused on whether the government ought to treat lawyers with different duties to help both industries and defend their interests while at the same time ensuring lawyers do not exercise unfair advantage over their clients in the system of law as they practice it. Justice Thomas argued that to do so would require the government to override constitutional protection for personal rights against unreasonable search and seizure and a right to be free from double jeopardy. The court then gave three reasons why it would be unreasonable to require that lawyers whose work is protected by the Constitution and