Report: DOJ Used 9/11-Era Patriot Act Terrorism Law To Obtain Search Warrant On January 6 Defendants

An unsealed court document reveals that in July of 2021 federal prosecutors filed an application for a search warrant citing a rarely used ‘domestic terrorism’ measure in the Patriot Act to “seize and search” the cellphone of an attorney connected to the Oath Keepers.
The Patriot Act, as many will remember, passed qui …