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bean469today at 12:09 PM2 repliesview on HN

> How comfortable are you guys with the fact that EU countries allow prosecutors and sometimes even police officers to issue their own search warrants without meaningful judicial review?

Just to be clear, according to the DOJ, law enforcement officials in the US can search your home without a warrant if they suspect that you are a "Alien Enemy" [1].

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25915967-doj-march-1...


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squarefoottoday at 12:29 PM

Don't forget civil forfeiture, which can (an does) happen whether they think you're an enemy or not.

https://ij.org/issues/private-property/civil-forfeiture/freq...

kvujtoday at 12:10 PM

Wouldn't source that this is happening in 1 of the member states be enough to raise alarms? Why do all of them need to for you to consider this an issue?