This is so deeply wrong. You will go to jail if you act like this.

> Look, if you want to preserve your rights you've gotta stand up for them.

You have absolutely no such right to refuse to comply with subpoenas, search warrants or court orders not delivered via your preferred means.

> Expecting them to show up in person in some capacity and show you the paperwork is fully reasonable

It’s not reasonable, because actual judges will not partake in such games. They will just hold you in contempt.

It might sound reasonable to a layman, but your lawyer will think you’ve gone crazy.

The only real reason you get charged with contempt is for ignoring the warrant. If you try to verify it you're not ignoring it. If you ignore something that's not a warrant they're SoL. It's my understanding these "emergency requests" have no legal basis. The ability of the state to pressgang people into service is very limited.

I'm willing to agree the law is crap and you might go to jail (briefly) anyway, but that's not an excuse for "it should work this way" which is the direction everyone seems to be taking it.

Don’t get stuck on the “emergency requests”, the people faking those are perfectly happy to fake court orders too.

> but that's not an excuse for "it should work this way" which is the direction everyone seems to be taking it.

I see many people arguing that the recipients should solve this problem by doing better verification, I don’t think that’s reasonable.

This is absolutely something that the lawmakers need to fix, but that will be a herculean task.

I'm aware they'll fake court orders too, which is your defense if you piss off the court. Sadly this is only an issue that can be solved by the recipients doing more verification. If the courts offered more verification, you still need to teach the recipients to make use of it.