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by wpietri 3920 days ago
Court orders are oversight. Police are by law limited on their own. To go further, they have to convince a judge.

The oversight on the judge? Higher-level judges. If you are arrested after a warrant that is later found to be invalid, the evidence collected based on the warrant is thrown out. This can go all the way to the supreme court. As it did in Franks v Delaware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franks_v._Delaware

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Don't forget the NSL system of secret court orders...