Judge needs some scrutiny too. Approving that warrant was horrible.

Normally I'm wary of "judge didn't do what I like that's bad" kind of discussion. But even with the virtual auto stamping of warrants for police that happens, that warrant deserved a lot of scrutiny by a judge paying attention. Of all the things the judge should have been the first layer of serious scrutiny after the county attorney made bad choices.

If there is rubber-stamping behavior going on, that's inappropriate. Prosecuting cases that are flagrant violations of rights might help curtail the practice.

Apparently the court responded that there was no probable cause whatsoever backing the warrant. That should never happen to even a multiple drug deal offender, let alone a news publication.

Lawsuit? KS state AG or the Feds need to open a criminal investigation.

The KS State AG is Kris Kobach. There's a less than zero chance of accountability coming at his hand. This is the dipshit that the court had to sanction and basically say "you need to go back to law school 101" and forced him to take remedial education.

(The KBI reports to him, and their initial response was that "the media is not above the law" until it became clear this was national news.)

Oops, sorry, I told the truth about a Republican, I deserve my HN smackdown, but, here, maybe this will help:

* Federal judge finds Kris Kobach in contempt of court in voting rights case (https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article2...)

* Kobach Sanctioned For Misconduct In Voting Rights Case, But Not Found 'Dishonest' (https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2019-...)

* Judge Orders Kris Kobach to Take Remedial Legal Classes After Multiple Courtroom Blunders (https://lawandcrime.com/awkward/kris-kobach-ordered-to-take-...)

* Kris Kobach, Already Ordered to Remedial Law Classes, Faces Even More Legal Challenges (https://americasvoice.org/blog/kobach-more-legal-challenges/)

Cant get smacked down for telling the truth. Kobach should have gone with Brownback and just left us alone.

Their rights were certainly violated, but I personally would rather see criminal proceedings against the person signing warrants despite fuckall for probable cause.

It's far beyond that. They submitted that warrant knowing it lacked probable cause. And this is almost certainly not the first time they've done so; they knew which judge to submit it to. This is just the first time it happened to arise to national attention.

This is not the fault of one incompetent jurist. It hints at much more widespread corruption, probably going back years.

Any healthy ecosystem will evolve relationships over time. There's no fundamental anti-collusion mechanism in the LE machine! On the contrary, it's a state attractor within the system of incentives and organization structure of Enforcing Law under the USG.

The Bureau of Suffering, if you will.