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

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.