re: Biden FBI tracked Melania and Barron Trump's travel - even tapped Susie Wiles phone

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This will only stop when we make this behavior by the government illegal (for everyone)

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But, of course, you express no outrage over the Biden FBI doing this to the Trump family.

What a complete and total phony you are.

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The justification for getting practically the entire RepublicanParty's. phone records? What could the Speaker of the House's call records have to do with documents Trump might have at MAL?

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Those were two separate criminal investigations.

What does it say about America that you have communist in the Democratic party with Rich democrat backing possible winning and have won.

Look at that piece of crap in NY.

12 Years of Biden and Obama will go down as the time when Communist through those 12 years infultrated America with the help of the ultra rich democrats and the corrupt Democratic Party.

The only thing that could save America is Republicans having President, Senate, House and undoing the disastrous time of those Presidents.

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And as usual, nothing will happen.

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Did they have a warrant? Garland can authorize the surveillance within the FBI, but he can't make it legal by issuing a warrant for it.

PR/TT only take a routine court order, not a warrant. Only has to be relevant to a criminal investigation.

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How do pen registers violate ACP?

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It depends on what they captured and how.

Smith v. Maryland, a decision made when the world was still on the old POTS/analog phone systems, established the "third-party doctrine" (essentually that users lose a reasonable expectation of privacy over routing data -like phone numbers- which are voluntarily shared with service providers).

Since then we've had Carpenter v. United States and Chatrie v. United States, which have chipped away at the doctrine you're pointing to.

In Carpenter (2018), the Court ruled that historical cell-site location information (CSLI) requires a warrant. The Court explicitly stated that the third-party doctrine does not automatically apply to the qualitative realities of the digital age, where data forms an "exhaustive chronicle" of a person's life. This would mean any geo-tracking Smith's group did via the information from a pen register was illegal.

In Chatrie (2026), the Supreme Court formally extended these protections to cloud-stored digital footprints, ruling that geofence location data held by third parties (like Google) is protected under the Fourth Amendment. The Court clarified that sharing data as an unavoidable byproduct of participating in modern life is not a "meaningful, voluntary disclosure" under Smith. That said, the investigation was well before this case so it wouldn't apply. I include it only to further show how Smith shouldn't (and increasingly doesn't) pertain to digital communications.

With all that said, while logging a phone number doesn't inherently reveal what an attorney and client talked about, using a pen register to systematically map out a defense team's network can pierce ACP. Knowing when a client calls a specific lawyer, how long they talk, and which specialized co-counsel is subsequently looped into the call chain maps out the defense's strategy. If a prosecution team gains access to this network mapping, a judge can deem the entire data gathering illegal and disqualify the case.

And that's if they are just using metadata. If they went beyond that like capturing extensions dialed after reaching a law office, for example, that is considered communication content instead of metadata and it's not covered under a pen register.

As TDS Dems, libs and nerds continue to cry about Trump being a muh "dictator," and "weaponizing the the FBI and DOJ against his enemies."

But but... Democrats told me "no one is above the law." Surely that means THEY are not above the law, right?

muh both sides.... muh ackshywully.... muh Trump's fault.... muh routine law enforcement protocols

But But... Eric Schmitt made a mistake about which basketball game Jack Smith went to, so that negates all of the actually horrific, illegal, criminal, and traitorous things Smith and the D.C. establishment cabal he was working with, did.