Trump is Using a Secret Grand Jury to Unmask a Reddit User

The Trump administration is using a secret grand jury to try to unmask an anonymous Reddit user whose biggest crime appears to be posting anti-ICE comments online. Right, ICE first tried to get Reddit to hand over the user's name, address, and phone number

using an administrative subpoena. And their legal basis was a tariff law from 1930 that governs boat sales and wine imports. And the user's lawyers challenged it in a California federal court no more public proceedings. Grand juries, they're secret.

They favor prosecutors and free speech protections. They're at their weakest inside of them. So you have the Electronic Frontier Foundation saying this is a major escalation with their senior counsel saying we should be very, very, very concerned that they've now taken one of these to a grand jury.

As far as what this Reddit user actually posted, And the most aggressive thing they found was that the user shared publicly available biographical details about an ICE agent involved in a shooting. And then they also suggested anti-ICE protest sign ideas and said that TSA sucks. That is it. That is what triggered a federal grand jury. And while Reddit says that it doesn't voluntarily

share user data with any government, especially not on users exercising their rights to criticize the government, to criticize the government, a grand jury subpoena is a lot harder to fight