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by EdHominem 3775 days ago
Because they can't. A court order can't let them fly. Nor can it compel you to build them wings. (Though you may have to buy them a can of Red Bull.)

The police were already searching you and your house so we enacted rules to try to control that. Those rules didn't enable the searching - they placed restrictions on the applicability of evidence to reduce the desire to search improperly.