If that search is an effort to obtain the communications of US Persons, that's key. It's about searches of already collected data. Under current law, no warrant is required for that kind of search. Many of us … The Biggs Amendment...would have [required a warrant for searches of already collected data]. … make that an order. But instead of having these debates out in the open, Speaker Johnson worked with a small handful of Republican holdouts behind closed doors. The result? (00:43–00:49)
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Asserts that the Biggs Amendment would have required a warrant for certain data searches.
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