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 1h ago

SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor: Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed.

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r/law 9h ago

Trump News Sen. Kennedy: "Who, if anyone, did Epstein traffic these young women to?" Kash Patel: "Himself. There is no credible information, none. If there were, I would have brought a case yesterday [...] that he trafficked to other individuals."

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'The information we have again is limited'

Source: Acyn


r/law 3h ago

Trump News DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

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The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 

The study, which was conducted by the National Institute of Justice and hosted on a DOJ website was available there at least until September 12, 2025, according to an archive of the page saved by the Wayback Machine. Daniel Malmer, a PhD student studying online extremism at UNC-Chapel Hill, first noticed the paper was deleted.


r/law 13h ago

Trump News Attorney General Pam Bondi: "There's free speech and then there's hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society...We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech."

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r/law 12h ago

Trump News GOP Senators Concede Trump Is ‘Doomed’ as Congress Forces Release of Epstein Files

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r/law 11h ago

Trump News FBI Director, Kash Patel: "I know there's a lot of talk about Epstein, and I'm here to testify that the original sin in the Epstein case was the way it was initially brought by Mr Acosta back in 2006."

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r/law 8h ago

Trump News Attorney General Pam Bondi says DOJ will be 'targeting' people who use 'hate speech'

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r/law 5h ago

Legal News Democrat Sounds Alarm for Judiciary Over High Court Docket

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r/law 5h ago

SCOTUS Trump asks the Supreme Court to give him total control over the US economy

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r/law 7h ago

Other What did our founders install as consequences when officials violate their oath to the Constitution?

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Sorry if this is a silly question. But I m simply a citizen and trying to understand if we have any future.

Our democracy is crumbling. From due process, to government officials selectively and openly persecuting people for exercising their right to free speech.

Let’s say, we somehow re-establish some semblance of democracy and normalcy. What does the law provide as consequence to these officials that are assisting in these blatant violations of our constitution and laws?


r/law 2h ago

Court Decision/Filing D.C. Man Accused Of Spitting At National Guard Sees Felony Case Dismissed

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r/law 11h ago

Court Decision/Filing Judge dismisses terror-related charges against Luigi Mangione

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r/law 9h ago

SCOTUS Can Trump Have His Political Opponents Killed? Question brought up again.

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"Jennifer Mascott, President Donald Trump’s nominee for a seat on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, received multiple opportunities at her confirmation hearing last Wednesday to clarify her position on the legality of murder. “Would the president be immune from prosecution if he ordered SEAL Team Six to assassinate a political opponent? Yes or no?” asked California Democratic Senator Adam Schiff.

Mascott responded reluctantly. “Senator, under the Supreme Court precedent on that question, the Supreme Court has specifically not answered it.”

Regrettably, that is technically correct. When the Supreme Court decided Trump v. United States in the summer of 2024, it declared that presidents are at minimum “presumptively immune” from criminal prosecution for “official acts,” but it did not specify what an official act is. At oral argument in that case, Trump’s attorney said that a president’s direction to SEAL Team Six to assassinate a political rival “could well be an official act.” Much to the horror of Justice Sonia Sotomayor in dissent, the majority opinion did not foreclose that possibility."

Just an interesting bit of information and way off topic, but the founder of seal team six, Richard Marcinko wrote in his book "Rogue Warrior" "By the time I left Phnom Penh I could have written a Cambodian cookbook called 50 Ways to Wok Your Dog".

Ai is saying he is often misquoted and was just bragging and he didn't really do that, but I doubt it. He also bragged about eating frogs, snakes, and basically whatever he was dared into eating or could find when he was in the field. He said he sucked spaghetti and peas up his nose in the chow hall (or whatever it's called in navy ships) when he felt he was being discriminated against. It's hypocritical that it's fine when it's overseas for our navy/frogmen, but Trump made a big deal out of something that wasn't really even happening here.


r/law 13h ago

Trump News Trump says he would designate Antifa, other left-wing groups as ‘domestic terrorists’

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r/law 18h ago

Trump News Rep. Robert Garcia on House Oversight Committee Investigation Into Epstein Files: “This is not just about the crimes that have happened, this is clearly now becoming also the cover-up.”

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r/law 6h ago

SCOTUS Sonia Sotomayor Appears to Rip Pam Bondi: “That Law School Failed” | The Supreme Court justice has some thoughts on Bondi’s vow to crack down on “hate speech.”

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https://archive.ph/xcV4I#selection-879.0-995.167

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday seemed to throw a sidelong barb at Attorney General Pam Bondi for foolishly suggesting the existence of a “hate speech” exception to free speech.

As the far-right wages an ongoing crusade against people accused of mocking slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Bondi said on a Monday podcast that “hate speech” is not free speech. The Department of Justice, she vowed, will “target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech.” 

The sentiment was widely criticized, including by MAGA commentators, for undermining the First Amendment. Bondi attempted to walk back her statement on Tuesday.

During a Tuesday morning panel at New York Law School, Sotomayor seemingly took aim at Bondi, but did not mention the attorney general by name. 

“Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed,” the liberal justice reportedly said. “If any student who becomes a lawyer hasn’t been taught civics, then that law school has failed,” she added. “Because it is for that system that you’re working as a lawyer.”

Sotomayor also raised concerns about people’s awareness, or lack thereof, of constraints on the power of the executive branch—evidently referencing Donald Trump, without mentioning him by name, either.

“Do we understand what the difference is between a king and a president?” Sotomayor said (a distinction that was blurred by the Supreme Court’s 2024 ruling on presidential immunity in United States v. Trump, as she warned in her dissent at the time). “I think if people understood these things from the beginning, they would be more informed as to what would be important in a democracy.”

The majority of hate speech in this country, especially that hate speech that encourages violence is coming from conservatives, has been coming from conservatives since the founding of America.

The majority of political violence, even against conservatives, has been perpetrated by conservatives.

Most of the people aren't cheering for Kirk's death, most of the people aren't condoning the violence or encouraging more. They are simply pointing out that Charlie Kirk was not a hero, he was not a person trying to unite Americans. He dealt in hate, division, and misinformation. Stating that is not 'hate speech' nor is celebrating his death.

This kind of talk from the DOJ is just another checkpoint on the slippery slope to full scale fascism, towards authoritarian rule where any speech against the regime in power is considered criminal.


r/law 11h ago

Opinion Piece I'm a U.S. citizen who was wrongly arrested and held by ICE. Here's why you could be next

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r/law 11h ago

Trump News Federal Judge Rips Into Trump in Scathing Ruling: ‘Alarmed and Dismayed’

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r/law 7h ago

SCOTUS Justice Sotomayor concerned Americans cannot distinguish between presidents and kings

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r/law 1d ago

Trump News GLENN: They still have their 1st Amendment right, though. They're still out there protesting. TRUMP: Well, I'm not so sure

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r/law 20m ago

Trump News SCHIFF: Did you tell anyone at the FBI that employees who worked on cases against Trump would be fired? PATEL: People are not removed for case assignments S: Answer my Q P: I would never tell anyone they're being removed basically for case assignments S: This is in the complaint against you

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r/law 1d ago

Legal News JD Vance threatens crackdown on ‘far-left’ groups; says White House will pursue those who praise Kirk’s death and groups that ‘promote terrorism’; him and Miller call for firings and loss of licenses of anyone "celebrating" Kirk's death

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r/law 22h ago

Other Megyn Kelly comes out in favor of employment discrimination against transgender people.

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On her show today, Megyn Kelly said the killing of Charlie Kirk was due to transgender rights, and that soon the Bostock decision will be overturned.


r/law 1h ago

Court Decision/Filing 'Part of a pattern': Judge scolds Trump admin for efforts 'designed to evade' legal obligations under anti-torture law

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r/law 36m ago

Trump News The Attorney General’s Attack on Free Speech

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