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"but judges routinely rubber stamp every warrant request that comes across their desk."

Provide numbers or data or real insight on this. You simply saying it does not make it true or factual.

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https://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/is-the-foreign-inte...

99.97% warrants were approved by FISC between 1979 and 2012.

FISC courts are for foreign surveillance targets where there's a national security interest. It doesn't remotely apply to this case, where the crime was a string of department store robberies. FISA warrants are a completely different beast. I don't like them either, but they have no bearing on this particular case. Though, I should add that, from the details of the case, it seems like they had more than enough probable cause to get a warrant.

People outside of the US don't require a warrant at all. FISC warrants are for people physically located within the US and its territories or who have data or property stored within the US.

> It doesn't remotely apply to this case

You have to read comments within the context they were given. This is a broader discussion about warrants, and the specific comment I was replying to asked for data on claims of "rubber stamping" of warrants.

I don't know of any systematic studies, but the balance of available evidence is that warrant approval rates are very high:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2017/08/10/...

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