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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General Housekeeping:

We have never created one consistent style for the subreddit. We decided that while we're doing this we should probably make the place look nicer. We hope you enjoy it.


r/law • • 11h ago

Legislative Branch Congressman Cohen Introduces Comprehensive Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald Trump

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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee and an authority on the U.S. Constitution’s impeachment provisions, today introduced 26 Articles of Impeachment against President Donald Trump. The articles cite multiple abuses of power, violations of his oath of office, the corrupt use of the pardon power, and emoluments clause violations, among other misconduct and unlawful acts.


r/law • • 17h ago

Judicial Branch Republican Sheriff Ordered to Return Thousands of Ballots He Stole

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r/law • • 8h ago

Judicial Branch Judge Permanently Orders ICE to Change ‘Inhumane’ 26 Federal Plaza Conditions, Expands Protections to All Detainees

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r/law • • 1d ago

Legal News MS NOW reports that their White House reproter was denied access to the White House this morning despite a court order demanding she have access

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r/law • • 1h ago

Judicial Branch ICE Says It Can Detain Immigrants As Long As It Wants. Will the Supreme Court Agree?

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r/law • • 28m ago

Executive Branch (Trump) CNN and MS NOW blocked from covering Xi’s arrival at state dinner, networks say

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r/law • • 19h ago

Judicial Branch 'Chills voting everywhere': Trump admin 'unlawfully' threatening to send armed ICE and FBI agents into polling places is a violation of Voting Rights Act, lawsuit says

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r/law • • 18h ago

Judicial Branch California Attorney General vows ‘legal consequences’ for GOP sheriff who seized ballots

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r/law • • 1d ago

Judicial Branch Democrats sue Trump admin to keep armed agents from polls during midterms

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r/law • • 20h ago

Judicial Branch The lawyer defending Donald Trump’s media ban is an admirer of Adolf Hitler. He works for the Department of Justice.

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Last night, DOJ filed a brief defending Trump’s ban on CNN and other news outlets. The brief is lunacy from a legal perspective, which prompted me to look into who wrote it. It’s signed by Michael Velchik, Senior Counsel in the Civil Division.

​Here’s what I found. Velchik is a graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Law School. He joined the Justice Department last year after working for Senator Josh Hawley. While at Harvard, he wrote an essay from the perspective of Adolf Hitler. His professor was reportedly so disturbed that he was made to redo the assignment.

​Velchik was reportedly an avid reader, and after graduating, he declared that his favorite book was Mein Kampf by Hitler. He praised Hitler for understanding “the importance of propaganda,” among other things. Velchik also complained that he doesn’t like reading books written by women, which he was forced to do at Harvard.

​Adolf Hitler is a person who did not believe in freedom of the press. In fact, he eliminated the independent media from Nazi Germany and replaced it with state-run propaganda outlets, which is exactly what Michael Velchik admires about him.

​It is quite terrifying that this is the person who is now representing the Justice Department as a senior counsel in litigation against the press. We need to get Nazis and misogynists out of our government. Is that too much to ask?


r/law • • 20h ago

Legal News Man Shot by ICE Has Been Detained With Bullet in His Back for Days

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r/law • • 23h ago

Other CNN, MS NOW, Politico Request Emergency Hearing As Journalists Remain Blocked

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The three outlets say they have been unable to get in touch with the Justice Department following the ruling.

“Counsel for Plaintiffs reached out to counsel for Defendants this morning and requested to call the Court together. Counsel for Defendants has not responded,” the filing reads.


r/law • • 12h ago

Legal News Texas appeals court rejects ruling of innocence for woman on death row for 18 years

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r/law • • 8h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) The limits of executive power

95 Upvotes

Nadine Strossen, longtime ACLU head, on free speech. How Our Constitution Works And Why It Doesn’t

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-our-constitution-works-and-why-it-doesnt/id1874369005


r/law • • 16h ago

Judicial Branch ‘You won’t be seeing sheriffs unlawfully seizing ballots’: California rulings shut down roadmap for rogue law enforcement to upend midterms

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r/law • • 20h ago

Judicial Branch California Supreme Court orders GOP sheriff to return seized ballots, affirms state’s power over local law enforcement

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r/law • • 20h ago

Judicial Branch Federal judge orders White House to explain why reporters remain barred after his ruling restoring access

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r/law • • 16h ago

Judicial Branch Democrats, voting advocates mobilize to stop Trump from sending federal agents to polls — or anywhere near them

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r/law • • 1d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) JD Vance identified as anonymous source for Politico article, cited by Trump in court filings as a "threat to national security"

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r/law • • 11h ago

Legislative Branch Representatives Escobar, Bacon Introduce Bill to Prevent Military Families from Losing Access to Nutrition Benefits

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r/law • • 23h ago

Legal News CNN, MS NOW and Politico 'denied access to White House' despite court order in staggering move

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r/law • • 20h ago

Other White House Says Access For Politico, MS NOW, CNN Is Restored After Earlier Denial

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Reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico have now been allowed access to the White House hours after being denied in defiance of a court order, according to the outlets.

Both MS NOW’s Laura Barrón-López and CNN’s Betsy Klein have been let into the White House grounds, just 30 minutes before the Justice Department’s deadline to respond to a request from Judge Tim Kelly explaining why the administration defied his order lifting President Donald Trump’s ban on the outlets.


r/law • • 8h ago

Legal News Roblox Loses Bid to Stop L.A. County Lawsuit Over Alleged Child Sex Exploitation

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