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A quick definition of general warrant:

A general warrant is a type of legal document that allows law enforcement officers to search and seize things without specifying exactly what they are looking for. This is not allowed because it violates the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which requires warrants to be specific and based on probable cause. General warrants were used in the past to arrest people for saying things the government didn't like, but they were banned in 1766. Nowadays, warrants must be specific and based on evidence.

A more thorough explanation:

A general warrant is a type of warrant that gives a law-enforcement officer broad authority to search and seize unspecified places or persons. It is a search or arrest warrant that lacks a sufficiently particularized description of the person or thing to be seized or the place to be searched. General warrants are unconstitutional because they fail to meet the Fourth Amendment's specificity requirements.

For example, a general warrant might authorize a police officer to search any house in a particular neighborhood without specifying which house or what they are looking for. This type of warrant is illegal because it violates the Fourth Amendment's requirement that warrants be based on probable cause and describe with particularity the place to be searched and the things to be seized.

General warrants were banned by Parliament in 1766 after they were used by the English Secretary of State to arrest the author, printer, or publisher of a seditious libel without naming the persons to be arrested. The practice of issuing general warrants continued in the United States until the landmark case of Money v. Leach in 1763, in which the warrant was declared void by the whole court of king's bench.

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1a2b3c4d26z
11:15
In this analogy is the LSAT the NFL combine
JumpySubsequentDolphin
11:16
I told my family I won’t get any decisions until 2025 so they wouldn’t bombard me hahah
no i think there should be a Law School combine with all new drills except there is still the 40 yard dash
and a sub 4.5 gets you into any t14
LSAT can be one of the drills
letsseehowitgoesnow
11:17
so washu only called one person
So all the D1 athletes will get into a T-14. What else is new?
@TheAdoptedOne: that is called "Dean Poker Night" lol
@ClockworkBlue: I feel like most people could train for the 40 for the same amount of time as they do the LSAT and get close to sub 5 which would be equivalent to a 167+
this is like the schizophrenic posts JJK tik tok be putting out
powerscaling Law School deans up next
11:19
Election Day election day
Write in Dean Z vote
11:20
Saw a guy that wrote in Biden and he said no retirement for you buddy
1a2b3c4d26z
11:20
@ClockworkBlue: god I hope that's true
if the country was run the same as Mich Law it would be a better place
Imagine if election night was run by an adcom? Like, "yep, we could get the results Friday, or June 2025."
imagine if it was like Berkley applications
1a2b3c4d26z
11:22
Election status: Complete
1a2b3c4d26z
11:22
For months
triplethread
11:23
erection day
soapy
11:23
Shoutout to Robinhood's election bet not resolving until January
triplethread
11:23
is anyone else like certain that trump will win
ambitiouslizard
11:23
he aint winning
triplethread
11:23
i like being a pessimist
ambitiouslizard
11:24
he lost his re-election, why would he win this one?
1a2b3c4d26z
11:25
I have no idea why people have so much beef w berkeley's app
I've been reading a bit about "herding," which is this idea that pollsters are making the race look tied so they look right no matter who wins.
1a2b3c4d26z
11:26
Like... it's a more involved app but you don't have to do it? They're clearly trying to have some self-selection go on
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