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This is not a theory, mind you, I had subpoenas for the Cville lawsuit which asked for, essentially, "any digital thing you have about anything, anytime, anywhere, now".
They didn't go after the server because I was able to soundly state that it's creation was long after "the rally", but a future case may not be similar.