I'm less interested in public officials than I am of members of the media industrial complex potentially having their love letters to Scooter released. But, yes, aside from the issue of Scooter's lawyer acting on behalf of people he doesn't represent there appears to be an implicit argument that public figures deserve more privacy protection than non-public ones. That's a novel idea.
Let's hope the word "blogger" doesn't give Judge Walton a temporary instant lobotomy as it seems to do to so may people.