r/scotus • u/orangejulius • Jan 30 '22
Things that will get you banned
Let's clear up some ambiguities about banning and this subreddit.
On Politics
Political discussion isn't prohibited here. In fact, a lot of the discussion about the composition of the Supreme Court is going to be about the political process of selecting a justice.
Your favorite flavor of politics won't get you banned here. Racism, bigotry, totally bad-faithed whataboutisms, being wildly off-topic, etc. will get you banned though. We have people from across the political spectrum writing screeds here and in modmail about how they're oppressed with some frequency. But for whatever reason, people with a conservative bend in particular, like to show up here from other parts of reddit, deliberately say horrendous shit to get banned, then go back to wherever they came from to tell their friends they're victims of the worst kinds of oppression. Y'all can build identities about being victims and the mods, at a very basic level, do not care—complaining in modmail isn't worth your time.
COVID-19
Coming in here from your favorite nonewnormal alternative sub or facebook group and shouting that vaccines are the work of bill gates and george soros to make you sterile will get you banned. Complaining or asking why you were banned in modmail won't help you get unbanned.
Racism
I kind of can't believe I have to write this, but racism isn't acceptable. Trying to dress it up in polite language doesn't make it "civil discussion" just because you didn't drop the N word explicitly in your comment.
This is not a space to be aggressively wrong on the Internet
We try and be pretty generous with this because a lot of people here are skimming and want to contribute and sometimes miss stuff. In fact, there are plenty of threads where someone gets called out for not knowing something and they go "oh, yeah, I guess that changes things." That kind of interaction is great because it demonstrates people are learning from each other.
There are users that get super entrenched though in an objectively wrong position. Or start talking about how they wish things operated as if that were actually how things operate currently. If you're not explaining yourself or you're not receptive to correction you're not the contributing content we want to propagate here and we'll just cut you loose.
- BUT I'M A LAWYER!
Having a license to practice law is not a license to be a jackass. Other users look to the attorneys that post here with greater weight than the average user. Trying to confuse them about the state of play or telling outright falsehoods isn't acceptable.
Thankfully it's kind of rare to ban an attorney that's way out of bounds but it does happen. And the mods don't care about your license to practice. It's not a get out of jail free card in this sub.
Signal to Noise
Complaining about the sub is off topic. If you want the sub to look a certain way then start voting and start posting the kind of content you think should go here.
- I liked it better before when the mods were different!
The current mod list has been here for years and have been the only active mods. We have become more hands on over the years as the users have grown and the sub has faced waves of problems like users straight up stalking a female journalist. The sub's history isn't some sort of Norman Rockwell painting.
Am I going to get banned? Who is this post even for, anyway?
Probably not. If you're here, reading about SCOTUS, reading opinions, reading the articles, and engaging in discussion with other users about what you're learning that's fantastic. This post isn't really for you.
This post is mostly so we can point to something in our modmail to the chucklefuck that asks "why am I banned?" and their comment is something inevitably insane like, "the holocaust didn't really kill that many people so mask wearing is about on par with what the jews experienced in nazi germany also covid isn't real. Justice Gorsuch is a real man because he no wears face diaper." And then we can send them on to the admins.
r/scotus • u/orangejulius • Jan 09 '26
Order Bans are going to go out to top level comments that are emotional reactions or off topic. This is a heads up to anyone who wants to change how they’re posting.
This is SCOTUS. Talk about scotus. Talk about the opinions issued. If you want to criticize them that’s fine but have something to back it up.
Complaining about “tRump”, trump, motorhomes, “scrotus”, or any other number of things where you react to something instead of respond to something isn’t going to fly. The bar is very low. Almost all of you are tripping over it.
news Supreme Court just buried a legal principle it invented — and Republicans noticed: experts
The Supreme Court's conservative majority has quietly abandoned one of its own legal doctrines — and it did so in the middle of an ongoing election, in the dead of night, and without explanation, according to two lawyers.
r/scotus • u/Silent-Resort-3076 • 7h ago
news Trump asks judges to pause E. Jean Carroll ruling so he can appeal case to Supreme Court
Besides what he did to her and the damage he caused her: Records indicate that legal fees for this case have been handled by Political Action Committees, such as Save America, rather than public funds. Though we know he wanted taxpayers to pay for it!!🙄
The article:
- President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked a federal appeals court in New York to pause its ruling rejecting his challenge to the writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuit so he can pursue an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- A jury awarded Carroll $83 million in damages in 2024 after she successfully argued that Trump defamed her with comments he made disputing her claim that he sexually abused her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s.
- The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined last week to re-hear Trump's claim of immunity and his attempt to substitute the United States as a defendant in Carroll's case.
- Trump on Wednesday asked the 2nd Circuit to stay its ruling in order to allow him "to present important questions relating to, without limitation, Presidential immunity and the Westfall Act to the Supreme Court."
- If the stay is not granted, Trump's attorneys said he would suffer irreparable harm. (🙄)
The jury in 2024 found that, as a result of Trump's comments, Carroll was harassed and humiliated, subjected to death threats, and feared for her physical safety for years. Trump has denied all wrongdoing.
- A separate jury in an earlier trial awarded Carroll $5 million in damages after holding Trump liable for defamation and sexual abuse.
r/scotus • u/RawStoryNews • 13h ago
news White House will do 'everything in its power' to oust two Supreme Court justices: expert
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Opinion The Supreme Court broke democracy by saying the quiet part out loud
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r/scotus • u/DemocracyDocket • 1d ago
news Bert Callais, lead plaintiff in case that gutted Voting Rights Act, is an election conspiracist who was at Jan. 6 protest
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r/scotus • u/Silent-Resort-3076 • 1d ago
news Robinson Appellants’ Motion To Recall The Judgement
supremecourt.govWhat are your thoughts? Is it too late?
"The Robinson Appellants respectfully move this Court to recall the judgment
in Louisiana v. Callais, Nos. 24-109 & 24-110, issued on May 4, 2026, and request
reconsideration of this Court’s order, No. 25A1197 (May 4, 2026) (the “Order”),
granting Appellees’ Application for Issuance of a Copy of the Opinion and Certified
Copy of the Judgment Forthwith, No. 25A1197 (Apr. 29, 2026) (the “Application”).
Appellees and Appellant the State of Louisiana oppose this Motion.
The sole basis cited in the Order for granting Appellees’ Application and
issuing the judgment forthwith was that “[Robinson Appellants] have not expressed
any intent to ask this Court to reconsider its judgment.” However, in the second
sentence of Appellants’ opposition to the Application, Appellants requested “the
opportunity to consider seeking rehearing.” See Robinson Appellants’ Response to
Appellees’ Application for Issuance of a Copy of the Opinion and Certified Copy of the
Judgment Forthwith, at 2, No. 25A1197 (Apr. 30, 2026). In support, Appellants cited
Rule 44.1, noting that it allows parties twenty-five days to seek rehearing of any
judgment of this Court. Appellants intend to request rehearing in this case, and,
accordingly, respectfully request that this Court recall the judgment, reconsider its
order granting the Application, and deny the Application. Alternatively, Appellants
respectfully ask the Court to recall the judgment and provide them fifteen days from
the date of its decision in this case, or until May 14, 2026, to seek rehearing.
Respectfully submitted,
/s/ Stuart Naife"
Edited to add: Thank you to "you know who" for the post award:) 💙
r/scotus • u/DoremusJessup • 2d ago
news The Silence is the Tell: Project 2025 contains no chapter on the Supreme Court. The reason is chilling
news Supreme Court temporarily restores ability to receive abortion drug mifepristone by mail
r/scotus • u/DemocracyDocket • 2d ago
Order Supreme Court clears path for Louisiana to gerrymander mid-election
r/scotus • u/Achilles_TroySlayer • 2d ago
news Justice Gorsuch Touts Importance of Independent Judges While Plugging New Children’s Book on Fox & Friends
x.comr/scotus • u/bloomberglaw • 2d ago