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Not that I don't agree with your main point about warrants being too easy, but wouldn't a "rubber stamp" equilibrium be inevitable in any fair system? Eventually the institutional knowledge builds up to have a good idea what requests will be granted before making them.

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While that may be true, we have clear and repeated evidience that the warrant process is not a "rubber stamp" because the police are just that good, but instead because judges have stopped reading or even caring about the constitutionality of the warrants they are issuing.

Instead putting the burden on the defendant to challenge them in court at some time later. Which given the state of Plea bargain's, public defense and other factors almost never happens

Has a single judge ever faced negative consequences for illegally rubber stamping a warrant?

When there's no downside for fucking up your job it's all a moot point.

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