smelled marijuana inside the home. they believed it was being flushed down the toilet, right? this ruling will allow police officers when they feel like evidence could be being destroyed in a home, they can barge right in before they go to a judge and get the warrant. i m very concerned about it. one of the great principles of english and american law is the idea that our homes are supposed to be our castles. and in some countries around the world, the police can search any home whenever they want to. but in america, the police power is limited. and the primary check on the power of the police is our warrant application process. the police are supposed to first go and persuade an impartial judge that they want to search a particular home and they have a valid basis for searching that home. if the judge looks at their application and thinks it s a good investigation, he ll approve the warrant and the search can take place but if he thinks the police are just acting on gossip, innuendo
documents and information from congress, something he denied. and also accuses him of abusing the fisa warrant application process and we now know that rosenstein signed off on the fbi renewal application to wiretap carter page, the former trump campaign adviser. democrats counter this is really all just a rus to get rid of rosenstein and the thinking is any replacement for him would be more inclined to fire robert mueller or at least narrow the scope of mueller s work. as referred to the russia investigation as a witch hunt. there are a couple of things to know here. first is that only 11 house republicans, only 11 hallie, up to 236 house republicans signed on to this effort which speaks volumes and the second thing is this group of house freedom caucus members at the moment are choosing not to use a legislative maneuver that would force the house to vote on it. the other thing to know, perhaps more important, even if the house did vote to impeach