The warrant issued for the recent search — we’re not supposed to use the r-word — at Mar-a-Lago authorized agents to take ‘all physical documents and records constituting evidence, contraband, fruits of crime, or other items illegally possessed’ that violate the U.S. Code.
And it authorized them to look at ‘all storage rooms, and all other rooms or areas within the premises used or available to be used by FPOTUS and his staff and in which boxes or documents could be stored, including all structures or buildings on the estate.’
In other words: Search everywhere for evidence of anything that might be a crime, even crimes we have no reason to believe were committed.
How is this warrant different from the general warrants that helped prompt the American Revolution and that led to the inclusion of the Fourth Amendment¹ in the Bill of Rights?
Lavrentiy (‘Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime‘) Beria must be grinning with delight, wherever he is now.
¹ You know, the one that requires probable cause to believe that a specific crime has been committed, and for a subsequent warrant to ‘particularly describe the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized’.
