This seems ridiculous, it's pretty clear that the government had enough evidence to justify a warrant to for the location data- they had already obtained one to

This seems ridiculous, it's pretty clear that the government had enough evidence to justify a warrant to for the location data- they had already obtained one to search the phones. The difference here is purely procedural, of course the court is going to refuse to overturn a guilty verdict just because they asked for a court order instead of a second warrant. And now we have this shitty law.