Re: It makes no sense
The fourth amendment is a fairly general prohibition of certain types of government action. The full text reads
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,[a] 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."
The Constitution is not self-enforcing, and both the Stored Communications Act (18 USC 2701 - 2712) and the amendments to it that Representative Yoder proposes are laws that set limits on what courts are to consider "search" or "seizure." At present, the law implicitly seems to regard stored for over 180 days to have been abandoned, and therefore fair game, perhaps in much the way the contents of waste containers once they are placed on the street for collection. As Representative Yoder would have it, search or seizure would occur irrespective of the age of stored communications, and a warrant would be required in all cases rather than only for those stored for 180 or fewer days.