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If you think judges actually read warrants they sign, you’re very mistaken. Some judges are signing dozens of these a day in between other things on their docke

If you think judges actually read warrants they sign, you’re very mistaken. Some judges are signing dozens of these a day in between other things on their docket.

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hirvi74 7mo ago
"Ninety-eight percent of warrant reviews eventually result in an approval, and over 93% are approved on first submission. Further, we find that the median time for review is only three minutes, and that one out of every ten warrants is opened, reviewed, and approved in sixty seconds or less. [1]" Mind you, this data only represents the state of Utah's electronic "e-Warrant" system. It would not surprise me is results were not too different across other states. [1] https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-138/unwarranted-warrants-an-empirical-analysis-of-judicial-review-in-search-and-seizure https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-138/unwarranted-warra...
- UncleMeat 7mo ago
  FISA warrants were even more incredible, with well below 1% rejection rates. And then hilariously people would say that this is just evidence that the warrants are all written extremely carefully and conservatively.
  - dragonwriter 7mo ago
    > FISA warrants were even more incredible, with well below 1% rejection rates. That's potentially much less incredible, and in any case not directly comparable, because its the final, not on-first-submission, rate, and also doesn't count applications withdrawn after a preliminary rejection that allows modificaitons but before a final ruling. It only counts the share of those that get a final ruling where that is an approval.