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Wouldn't a law that exempts a law enforcement agency from constitutional limits be an unconstitutional law - and therefore an illegal law - and therefore not lawful?
In theory, yes.
In practice, 'its legally complicated' and 'what have you done for me lately' and 'you and what army?'
Governments work untill they don't.
We are currently in a Constitutional crisis, a coup, a fascist takeover, call it what you will.
In this situation, some of, or maybe even all of the laws and rules and norms operate by Whose Line Is It Anyway standards: The rules are made up and the points don't matter.
The fun part is that theres no real way to predict precisely which rules and norms will matter, in what contexts, when, both as a citizen or subject of a government, or as some kind of official or representative acting within it.