According to the Fourth Amendment, when is a judge allowed to write a warrant?
when the judge has a good reason to believe someone has broken the law whenever the police pay the judge enough money whenever the United States Congress is meeting whenever a person refuses to let the police search his or her property
A search warrant is a piece of paper that gives police the right to search a person's property. Only a judge can write a warrant.
A judge is allowed to write a search warrant when the judge has a good reason to believe someone has broken the law. The Fourth Amendment says that "unreasonable searches" are not allowed. It is not always clear what makes a search "unreasonable." Americans count on judges to decide. The diagram below explains how and when a police officer can get the right to search a person: