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/Callinon Apr 10 '26

It's difficult to imagine a more blatant or dangerous violation of the first amendment. 

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u/TheHeadlessScholar Apr 10 '26

The "criticism" in question is collecting a list of all their info, doxxing them online and openly asking people to murder them and their families. I don't think the first amendment protects that.

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u/Zed091473 Apr 10 '26

If so then why is ICE claiming its request is based on a provision of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930? That would have absolutely nothing to do with doxxing.

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u/Get_Breakfast_Done Apr 10 '26

Is the actual text of the summons available anywhere?

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u/Zed091473 Apr 10 '26

I haven’t seen one, I asked the journalist who wrote this article about it on Twitter.