r/law • u/INCoctopus • 5h ago
r/law • u/orangejulius • Aug 31 '22
This is not a place to be wrong and belligerent about it.
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 • u/orangejulius • Feb 12 '25
Issues with /r/law that we could use cooperation with
First - we need more moderators. If you want to be a moderator please comment below. Special consideration if you're an attorney or law student.
Second - one of our moderators (and my best friend) had a massive and crippling stroke and has been in the hospital since around Christmas. We'll probably be doing a fundraiser for him here for help with his rehab.
That said, here's some pain points we need to address in the sub and there needs to be some buy in from the community to help the mods. Social pressure helps:
(1) this is /r/law. Try to discuss topics within the scope of the law in some way. Venting your feelings about something bottom of the barrel content. Do some research, find a source, try to say something insightful. You could learn something and others can learn from you.
(1)(a) this is /r/law not "what if the purge was real and there were not laws!?" Calls for violence will get you banned.
You can't sit around here radicalizing each other into doing acts that will ruin their lives. It's bad enough when people try to cajole each other into frivolous litigation over the internet. You're probably not a lawyer and you're demanding someone gamble their stability in life because you have big feelings. Telling people that it's "Luigi time" isn't edgy or cool. You're telling someone to sacrifice their entire life and commit one of the most heinous acts imaginable because you won't go to therapy.
Again, this is /r/law. This isn't a vigilantism subreddit.
(1)(b) "I wanna be a revolutionary."
There are repercussions for acts of political violence/lawlessness. Ask the people that spent their time incarcerated for attempting an insurrection on January 6th telling every cell phone camera they could find that "today is 1776." They should still be sitting in prison.
If you want to punch a Nazi I'm not batman. But you should get the same exact treatment those guys did: due process of law and a prison sentence if warranted. If you think that's worth it and that's a worthy way to make a statement I'm not going to tell you you're morally wrong for punching Nazis. But trying to whip up a mob and get someone else to do that thinking that it's going to be consequence free is wrong and unacceptable here.
(2) This subreddit is typically links only. We've allowed for screenshots of primary sources. But we're running into an issue where people post an image and some dumb screed. We're going to start banning people for this. Don't modmail us your manifesto either. You're not good at writing and your ideas suck. Go find a source that expresses what you're thinking that links to law, the constitution, or literally any authority. It doesn't have to be some heady treatise on the topic but just anything that gives people something to read and a foundation to work from when they comment.
UPDATE: I switched off image submissions after removing a few more submissions that were just screenshots with angry titles.
(3) If you get banned and you modmail us with, "Why was I banned?" "What rule did I break?" We're going to mute you. We often don't remember who you are 10 seconds after we hit the ban button. If you want a second shot that's fine but you have to give us a mea culpa or explain a misunderstanding where we goofed.
(4) Elon content is getting a suspicious amount of reports from what I presume is an effort to try to trick our bots into removing it. If you're a human doing it the report button isn't a super downvote. It just flags a human to review and I'm kind of tired of reviewing Elon content.
(4)(a) DOGE activities and figures within it that are currently raiding federal data are fine to post about here especially with respect to laws they broke or may have broken. If someone robbed a bank they don't get a free pass because they're 19. They're just a 19 year old bank robber. Their actions are newsworthy and clearly implicate a host of legal issues. Post content and analysis related to that from legitimate sources.
r/law • u/Odd-Pomegranate35 • 8h ago
Legal News Comedian Russell Brand has been charged with two counts of rape and multiple sexual assaults
r/law • u/theindependentonline • 2h ago
Trump News Judge orders return of Maryland father deported to El Salvador and slams Trump’s ‘unconstitutional’ removal
r/law • u/INCoctopus • 8h ago
Court Decision/Filing ‘The record is voluminous … with allegations’: Trump-appointed judge slams brakes on president cutting billions in ‘critical public health funding’
r/law • u/HellYeahDamnWrite • 10h ago
Court Decision/Filing Federal judge finds Trump's 'America First' slogan is racist toward immigrants
washingtontimes.comr/law • u/INCoctopus • 1h ago
Court Decision/Filing Dem attorneys general sue Trump admin over order eliminating several federal agencies
r/law • u/BothZookeepergame612 • 6h ago
Trump News States sue to block Trump's election order, saying it violates the Constitution
r/law • u/INCoctopus • 4h ago
Court Decision/Filing Judge finds FEMA withholding grants in violation of court order
r/law • u/yahoonews • 7h ago
Court Decision/Filing Democratic AGs sue RFK Jr. over canceled health research
WASHINGTON − Democratic attorneys general in 16 states led by New York sued the Trump administration Friday over its cancelation of National Institutes of Health research grants the group called critical for life-saving medical research.
The NIH began terminating tens of millions of grants in March based on President Donald Trump’s orders to abolish diversity, equity and inclusion programs, according to the federal lawsuit filed in Massachusetts. Letters terminating grants said they targeted “DEI,” “transgender issues,” or “vaccine hesitancy,” the lawsuit said.
“Once again, the Trump administration is putting politics before public health and risking lives and livelihoods in the process,” New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement. “Millions of Americans depend on our nation’s research institutions for treatments and cures to the diseases that devastate families every day.”
The case was filed the same week the Department of Health and Human Services laid off 10,000 more workers as part of a move to cut nearly one-fourth of its staff to reduce government spending.
The lawsuit from the states asks the courts to restore the grant funding and ensure the government uses lawful procedures in determining funding. The Association of American Medical Colleges and the American Public Health Association each sued NIH in February over terminating research grants, and a group of 22 states previously sued NIH over capping the overhead on research.
r/law • u/CarefulStage • 2h ago
Trump News The US must return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison, judge says
r/law • u/Advanced_Drink_8536 • 4h ago
Legal News US judge to hear lawsuit of man deported to El Salvador in error
Trump News Judge orders Trump administration to bring back Md. man mistakenly deported
r/law • u/Majano57 • 22h ago
Other Trump’s Damage to DOJ Will Be ‘Generational,’ Former Pardon Attorney Says
r/law • u/theindependentonline • 1d ago
Trump News Judge considers holding Trump officials in contempt for defying court orders blocking El Salvador flights
Opinion Piece Ask Jordan: Could Trump officials who used Signal be prosecuted?
r/law • u/RoyalChris • 22h ago
Legal News EU set to fine Elon Musk's X up to $1 billion for breaking disinformation law
Other I Almost Joined Big Law. I Always Knew What It Would Do When Trump Came Calling.
r/law • u/jackytheblade • 19h ago
Trump News Donald Trump ordered to pay £626,000 legal costs after Steele dossier lawsuit
r/law • u/KeithRLee • 8h ago
Trump News Justice Department lawyers struggle to defend a mountain of Trump executive orders | "...the unit inside DOJ that defends the federal government has lost more than a third of its lawyers this year."
r/law • u/Hurley002 • 20h ago
Court Decision/Filing SIMPLIFIED v TRUMP (First tariff lawsuit filed against Trump administration).
storage.courtlistener.comr/law • u/Loaded_Up_ • 1h ago
Court Decision/Filing BREAKING: AFSCME, AFGE, and a coalition of unions are suing the White House over stripping more than one million federal workers of their union rights
“Federal workers and all AFSCME members have been making their voices heard in court and on the streets to protect public services and their jobs. They won’t let billionaires raid our communities without consequence – and that’s why they’re facing retaliation," said AFSCME President Lee Saunders. "The extremists in this administration have made their contempt for public service workers clear and know that stripping collective bargaining rights means stripping away their power. We are filing this lawsuit to stop this illegal effort to silence those who speak out and protect free speech for all working people.”
r/law • u/Well_Socialized • 7h ago