Emmer: "It's a false herring for these guys to suggest, 'Oh, we now we need a judicial warrant,'

[Swede]

I hate false herring. What ever the fuck that is.

Emmer: "It's a false herring for these guys to suggest, 'Oh, we now we need a judicial warrant,' because they know that that's going to delay any enforcement of the actual administrative warrant."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-02-16T21:09:09.569Z

[Walleye]

1. You mean red herring? Jesus, man, learn your own language.

[Jerry2144]

2. Emmer is very sharp

Just like a bowling ball

[lastlib]

4. I've been under the impression that he had the intellect of a brick.

(A very stupid brick, as bricks go.)

[GiqueCee]

3. "Actual administrative warrant?"

Is that what you wrap a false herring in? What an asshole.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. They're even rewriting our literary references!

Don’t these people have any shame!

[CousinIT]

6. What the f...?

A "false herring" is when the guy tossing out red herrings is ignorantly projecting.

https://triedtowarnyou.substack.com/p/the-false-herring

So, first, an administrative warrant is not the same as a judicial warrant. Not at all. The Law (remember the law, Mr. Emmer?) requires a judicial warrant signed by a judge to bust into someone’s home.

Emmer also whined that Democrats and everyone else (except Republicans) want ICE/DHS officers to be visibly identified and to unmask themselves.

He compared that to Republicans’ demands for Voter ID, trying to equate the two. He said something like: “Well, those Democrats want ICE officers to have ID, but they don’t think someone should have ID to vote!”

There’s a tiny bit of difference between those two things: The right to vote is enshrined in the US Constitution. Being brutalized by and/or having your home broken into and ransacked by an unidentified government Gestapo goon without a judicial warrant is not enshrined in the US Constitution—quite the contrary.

In that same Constitution that enshrines our right to vote is another part called the Fourth Amendment, where this is written:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

So not only is Emmer illiterate and apparently incapable of speaking the slang of his own language (what the hell is a “false herring”?), but he is also deeply ignorant of the Constitution of his own government, which is by definition a Constitutional Republic, which is in turn a form of democracy — that thing that the Republican Party loves to hate.