Not sure why the meme was included but the rest looks like gathering information in preparation for a crime to me. We are both not lawyers so we don’t know jack tbh

It's obviously not by itself a crime, but it could obviously be part of a fact pattern indicating intention to commit a crime.

This aspect of law and criminality isn't new at all. "What, so a guy can't just meet his buddies at a nice Italian restaurant anymore?"

You've mixed up crime and evidence.

It can be supporting evidence for all sorts of things which are argued in court where this person's counsel also gets to challenge it. It's not like Jan 6th defendants were convicted because of their Anchorman fandom.

> Searching for a Ron Burgundy meme is evidence of what, exactly?

Nice of you to ignore all other searches and focus on that one thing.

These searches are a footnote in the charging documents. This bozo was identified by eyewitnesses and appears in videos posted on Instagram of the riot, had air tickets from his home city to DC, had hotel reservations in DC, was carrying two phones each with logged-in location tracking accounts etc.