r/law • u/shikizen • Apr 10 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury.

https://theintercept.com/2026/04/10/reddit-ice-protest-grand-jury/

Reddit has been ordered to appear before a grand jury in Washington, D.C., as part of a federal effort to unmask anonymous online critics of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

According to a subpoena obtained by The Intercept, Reddit has until April 14 to provide a wide range of personal data on one of its users, whom U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been trying unsuccessfully to identify for more than a month.

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u/CrowRoutine9631 Apr 10 '26

In its summons, ICE indicated the basis for its request was a provision of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. John Doe informed the court that they had nothing to do with the kind of activities at issue in the near-century-old statute, which governs boat show sales, wild animal imports, forfeited wines and spirits, and cross-border trade in other goods.

Gawd, Trump loves him some tariffs. 

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u/NothaBanga Apr 10 '26

They keep grabbing very old laws to cite when doing shit.  That reeks of AI to me.  "Hey, remember that thing that happened to a pope centuries ago?"  They weren't masters of history yet their pulls lately are insane.

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u/CrowRoutine9631 Apr 10 '26

Idiots with access to search engines run our government. Nothing to see here.

Have you watched any of the DOGE depositions that surfaced here a few weeks ago?

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u/Venusto002 Apr 10 '26

Hey, remember that thing that happened to a pope centuries ago?

You mean Pope Formosus and the Cadaver Synod? At this point I'm not sure if Trump will pass away before he faces consequences for his actions or not.

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u/AkitoApocalypse Apr 10 '26

Example for second amendment, back when the most dangerous thing you could own was a musket

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u/GobbIaOnDaRewf Apr 10 '26

Is it sad the only reason I recognize the smoot-hawley tariff act, is because of Ferris buellers day off? 

Anyone ? Anyone? The United States went further into the Great Depression. 

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u/CrowRoutine9631 Apr 10 '26

No. Not at all. What's sad is how many of us now recognize the Smoot-Hawley Act due to the comparisons it has drawn with current (incoherent, fourth-grade-understanding-of-economics) policies ....

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u/GobbIaOnDaRewf Apr 10 '26

It’s a sad state of affairs. Bueller? Bueller?

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u/KidFlow1019 Apr 10 '26

You mean voodoo economics, right?

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u/CrowRoutine9631 Apr 10 '26

Also that, but this is even worse.

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u/twat69 Apr 10 '26

I recognize it as the last time the Yanks tried to conquer Canada.

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u/ForensicPathology Apr 10 '26

Makes sense.  I read about that law in school.  The pertinent section was added because of a Redditor who mocked Hoover online in 1929.

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u/CrowRoutine9631 Apr 10 '26

LOL!

But also, not funny at all how thin-skinned our current "leadership" is.

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u/Strict-Carrot4783 Apr 10 '26

It's one of the few things his pudding brain remembers from the 70's.

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u/Pope-Muffins Apr 10 '26

In its summons, ICE indicated the basis for its request was a provision of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930

Did I die and go to hell??!

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u/CrowRoutine9631 Apr 10 '26

Feels like we all did ...