r/law Aug 31 '22

This is not a place to be wrong and belligerent about it.

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A quick reminder:

This is not a place to be wrong and belligerent on the Internet. If you want to talk about the issues surrounding Trump, the warrant, 4th and 5th amendment issues, the work of law enforcement, the difference between the New York case and the fed case, his attorneys and their own liability, etc. you are more than welcome to discuss and learn from each other. You don't have to get everything exactly right but be open to learning new things.

You are not welcome to show up here and "tell it like it is" because it's your "truth" or whatever. You have to at least try and discuss the cases here and how they integrate with the justice system. Coming in here stubborn, belligerent, and wrong about the law will get you banned. And, no, you will not be unbanned.


r/law Oct 28 '25

Quality content and the subreddit. Announcing user flair for humans and carrots instead of sticks.

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Ttl;dr at the top: you can get apostille flair now to show off your humanity by joining our newsletter. Strong contributions in the comments here (ones with citations and analysis) will get featured in it and win an amicus flair. Follow this link to get flair: Last Week In Law

When you are signing up you may have to pull the email confirmation and welcome edition out of your spam folder.

If you'd like Amicus flair and think your submission or someone else's is solid please tag our u/auto_clerk to get highlighted in the news letter.

Those of you that have been here a long time have probably noticed the quality of the comments and posts nose dive. We have pretty strict filters for what accounts qualify to even submit a top level comment and even still we have users who seem to think this place is for group therapy instead of substantive discussion of law.

A good bit of the problem is karma farming. (which…touch grass what are you doing with your lives?) But another component of it is that users have no idea where to find content that would go here, like courtlistener documents, articles about legal news, or BlueSky accounts that do a good job succinctly explaining legal issues. Users don't even have a base line for cocktail party level knowledge about laws, courts, state action, or how any of that might apply to an executive order that may as well be written in crayon.

Leaving our automod comment for OPs it’s plain to see that they just flat out cannot identify some issues. Thus, the mod team is going to try to get you guys to cocktail party knowledge of legal happenings with a news letter and reward people with flair who make positive contributions again.

A long time ago we instituted a flair system for quality contributors. This kinda worked but put a lot of work on the mod team which at the time were all full time practicing attorneys. It definitely incentivized people to at least try hard enough to get flaired. It also worked to signal to other users that they might not be talking to an LLM. No one likes the feeling that they’re arguing with an AI that has the energy of a literal power grid to keep a thread going. Is this unequivocal proof someone isn't a bot? No. But it's pretty good and better than not doing anything.

Our attempt to solve some of these issues is to bring back flair with a couple steps to take. You can sign up for our newsletter and claim flair for r/law. Read our news letter. It isn't all Donald Trump stuff. It's usually amusing and the welcome edition has resources to make you a better contributor here. If you're featured in our news letter you'll get special Amicus flair.

Instead of breaking out the ban hammer for 75% of you guys we're going to try to incentivize quality contributions and put in place an extra step to help show you're not a bot.

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Are you saving our user names?

  • No. Once you claim your flair your username is purged. We don’t see it. Nor do we want to. Nor do we care. We just have a little robot that sees you enter an email, then adds flair to the user name you tell it to add.

What happened to using megathreads and automod comments?

  • Reddit doesn't support visibility for either of those things anymore. You'll notice that our automod comment asking OP to state why something belongs here to help guide discussion is automatically collapsed and megathreads get no visibility. Without those easy tools we're going to try something different.

This won’t solve anything!

  • Maybe not. But we’re going to try.

Are you going to change your moderation? Is flair a get out of jail free card?

  • Moderation will stay roughly the same. We moderate a ton of content. Flair isn’t a license to act like a psychopath on the Internet. I've noticed that people seem to think that mods removing comments or posts here are some sort of conspiracy to "silence" people. There's no conspiracy. If you're totally wrong or out of pocket tough shit. This place is more heavily modded than most places which is a big part of its past successes.

What about political content? I’m tired of hearing about the Orange Man.

  • Yeah, well, so are we. If you were here for his first 4 years he does a lot of not legal stuff, sues people, gets sued, uses the DoJ in crazy ways, and makes a lot of judicial appointments. If we leave something up that looks political only it’s because we either missed it or one of us thinks there’s some legal issue that could be discussed. We try hard not to overly restrict content from post submissions.

Remove all Trump stuff.

  • No. You can use the tags to filter it if you don’t like it.

Talk to me about Donald Trump.

  • God… please. Make it stop.

I love Donald Trump and you guys burned cities to the ground during BLM and you cheated in 2020 and illegal immigrants should be killed in the street because the declaration of independence says you can do whatever you want and every day is 1776 and Bill Clinton was on Epstein island.

  • You need therapy not a message board.

You removed my comment that's an expletive followed by "we the people need to grab donald trump by the pussy." You're silencing me!

  • Yes.

You guys aren’t fair to both sides.

  • Being fair isn’t the same thing as giving every idea equal air time. Some things are objectively wrong. There are plenty of instances where the mods might not be happy with something happening but can see the legal argument that’s going to win out. Similarly, a lot of you have super bad ideas that TikTok convinced you are something to existentially fight about. We don’t care. We’ll just remove it.

You removed my TikTok video of a TikTok influencer that's not a lawyer and you didn't even watch the whole thing.

  • That's because it sucks.

You have to watch the whole thing!

  • No I don't.

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r/law 14h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections

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“We’re going to have ICE surround the polls come November,” Bannon, a former senior advisor to President Donald Trump and still a figure of influence in the administration, said on Tuesday’s episode of his War Room podcast, addressing Democrats. “We’re not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again. And you can whine and cry and throw your toys out of the pram all you want, but we will never again allow an election to be stolen.”

Bannon’s comments came just a day after Trump said he believes that Republicans should “nationalize voting,” escalating concerns that the president is plotting to interfere in this year’s midterm elections.


r/law 1h ago

Legal News Judge rules Elon Musk must sit for depositions in lawsuits against DOGE

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r/law 10h ago

Other Teacher faces 20 years for post-graduation relationship with 18-year-old.

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I thought this was pretty interesting – he waited until she graduated to text her and she was 18.

"Under Nebraska law, teachers are prohibited from having intimate relationships with students within 90 days of their graduation or departure from the school system."


r/law 16h ago

Judicial Branch Supreme Court lets California use congressional map that favors Dems

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r/law 15h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump’s occupation of Minneapolis has broken the Justice Department

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r/law 5h ago

Judicial Branch The unfathomable Minnesota transcript that must be read, as it tells the reality of America today: "I am not white, as you can see," Julie Le — a government lawyer — told a federal judge on Tuesday. "And my family's at risk as any other people that might get picked up too ..."

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r/law 18h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) “No Means No”: AZ Secretary of State Calls for Resistance as Trump Pushes to “Nationalize” Voting

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27.7k Upvotes

r/law 3h ago

Judicial Branch LAPD chief McDonnell response to why he will not enforce the law banning ICE agents from wearing masks

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513 Upvotes

His response causes laughter.


r/law 9h ago

Legal News Judge gives Musk bad news, says Trump hasn't intervened to block SEC lawsuit | Musk is stuck fighting SEC suit seeking $150M in disgorgements from his Twitter takeover.

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r/law 21h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country

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r/law 8h ago

Legal News Paul Weiss’ Brad Karp Steps Down as Epstein Emails Revealed

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r/law 17h ago

Other Kash Patel says White House followed the law in releasing Epstein files - despite blowing deadline by two months

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r/law 15h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) The 1st, 4th, 5th, and 14th Amendments have been thrown out the window by the Trump Admin. Democrats should try to empower Victims and their Attorneys, and insist on more accountability for Agents. Then maybe it won’t be worth it anymore for DHS to traumatize Americans. - Rep. Jasmine Crockett

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2.2k Upvotes

Feb 3, 2026 - US Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas). Here’s the full 200-minutes on YouTube: WATCH LIVE: Renee Good's brothers join survivors to testify on use of force by DHS agents - PBS NewsHour

Here’s a description from C-SPAN: Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) host a meeting examining the tactics of Department of Homeland Security immigration enforcement agents, featuring testimony from the family of Renee Good and others.

Here’s an r/law post with another clip from this hearing: Anonymizing law enforcement dramatically reduces Public trust. These agents — local, state, or federal — act with Public authority, which means they’re policing in my name, and they’re policing in your name. - Law Professor Seth Stoughton

From crockett.house.gov/about :

Jasmine Crockett earned her J.D. from the University of Houston. She is Vice Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight.

Before being a Congresswoman, she was a public defender, and civil rights and criminal defense attorney. She focused on defending our most vulnerable among us from exploitation in the criminal justice system. As she began her career in the Bowie County Public Defender's Office, she worked tirelessly to keep children safe and out of jail. Her time there serves as a reminder that criminal justice is an intersectional issue.


r/law 13h ago

Legislative Branch Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) demands Netflix remove LGBTQ+ content from G and TV-Y7-rated series before merger with Warner Bros. is approved

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r/law 21h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Judge Incredulous as Trump Lawyer Asks Him to Create New Law for Mark Kelly Retribution Crusade

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r/law 1d ago

Other Michael Wolff, the author Trump is threatening to sue after falsely accusing him of conspiring with the Epstein estate to “politically harm” him, says if Trump sues, he’ll ask the Trumps under oath whether Epstein introduced Melania to Donald.

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14.5k Upvotes

r/law 14h ago

Judicial Branch China Declares Sexual Abuse Will Be Punishable by Death

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The People's Republic of China has enforced the maximum penalty against those accused of sexual crimes against minors, in response to the growing use of digital tools to deceive children.


r/law 12h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) A Video Of ICE Dragging This Disabled American Woman From Her Car Went Viral Last Month. Now She's Testifying About Her Experience

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r/law 3h ago

Other UPDATE: FEDERAL JUDGE RULES IN FAVOR OF THE SATANIC TEMPLE

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r/law 15h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Whistleblower complaint centers on sharing of classified intelligence and reporting of a potential crime, watchdog says

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r/law 8h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) When asked if he plans to apologize to Alex Pretti’s family, VP Vance responded: “For what?” despite the violation of civil liberties and labeling him as an assassin.

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371 Upvotes

r/law 15h ago

Judicial Branch Fulton County urges judge to return 'all' 2020 election files as legal expert exposes Trump's unconstitutional call to 'take over' voting

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r/law 8h ago

Other Someone cloned Epstein’s Gmail - you can scroll as if you were in his email, including contacts and flight logs

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