The Constitution is not a bargaining chip for a budget negotiation

Radley Balko · 16 Feb 2026

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An administrative warrant is not a warrant at all: it records an officer's own hunch instead of a judge's independent finding.

Their wordsAn administrative warrant is just a way for a law enforcement officers to memorialize a hunch on paper.

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Constitutional limits on policing are not policy preferences to be traded away in a budget negotiation.

Their wordsAnd that risks giving the impression that basic constitutional rights and restraints on police and executive power that date back to the Founding are, actually, negotiable.
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An administrative warrant is not a warrant at all: it records an officer's own hunch instead of a judge's independent finding.

Their wordsAn administrative warrant is just a way for a law enforcement officers to memorialize a hunch on paper.

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