[E. Pluribus Unum]

In other words, if the Feds want to get something on you all they have to do is get a search warrant for anything, and evidence of any other crimes they stumble across is admissable.

Why even bother with pretending the fourth amendment exists?

[TLI]

Why even bother with pretending the fourth amendment exists?

It keeps the sheep quiet.

[NJ_gent]

"In other words, if the Feds want to get something on you all they have to do is get a search warrant for anything, and evidence of any other crimes they stumble across is admissable."

That depends on a lot of things - not the least of which is the skill of your lawyer. If the police come to your door with a search warrant for evidence of a murder and run into your pot stash, then yes, it's probably admissable. So long as the police were acting in 'good faith', meaning they were working within the law and doing what they've been told to do by the judge, evidence of other crimes is generally admissable. Where they run into a problem is when they have a search warrant for a shotgun and they start tearing through your wife's jewelry boxes. They can find oodles of cocaine, but they can't do anything with it. The warrant covered a search for a shotgun. Unless you have a jewelry box large enough to stuff a shotgun inside, they have no business searching them.