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by linuxhansl 4481 days ago
> “If you have to go back to court every time you look at the information in your custody, you can imagine that would be quite burdensome,” deputy assistant attorney general Brad Wiegmann told the board.

Come again...? So we're breaking the separation of the three powers because otherwise the authorities have to be inconvenienced with the "quite burdensome" task of "going back to court"? He can't be serious.