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11,365 upvotes
Mar 6, 2017, 3:47 AM UTC
Posted by /u/nosecohn
EDIT: To those joining us from r/all and r/popular: We purposely posted this announcement a day in advance to give frequent visitors an opportunity to subscribe before we disappear from those pages, not expecting that the post itself would make it to the top of r/all. Sorry if t…
2,633 upvotes
Apr 18, 2019, 3:07 PM UTC
Posted by /u/huadpe
This is the report. Edit: Here is a backup link hosted by the Washington Post, since some people are reporting the DoJ site is down. Edit 2: as a warning, these are enormous PDF files, over 100 megabytes each. Here is a link to a version which allows text searching produced by t…
2,012 upvotes
May 10, 2017, 12:42 AM UTC
Posted by /u/huadpe
Tonight President Trump fired FBI director James Comey. The Trump administration's stated reasoning is laid out in a memorandum from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. That letter cites two specific incidents in its justification for the firing: Comey's July 5, 2016 news co…
1,838 upvotes
May 20, 2017, 4:49 PM UTC
Posted by /u/Karmadoneit
John Oliver recently put out another Net Neutrality segment Source: USAToday Article in support of the rule. But in the piece, it seems that he actually makes the counterpoint better than the point he's actually trying to make. John Oliver on Youtube Reason.com also posted about…
1,831 upvotes
Jan 22, 2019, 3:36 PM UTC
Posted by /u/nosecohn
One question that gets submitted quite often on r/NeutralPolitics is some variation of: Objectively, how has Trump done as President? The mods have never approved such a submission, because under Rule A, it's overly broad. But given the repeated interest, we're putting up our ow…
1,675 upvotes
Feb 27, 2017, 3:32 PM UTC
Posted by /u/JudgeScheindlin
I served as a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York for 22 years. Years before that I served as a federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of New York. I also served as a United States Magistrate Judge in the Eastern District of New York. I practiced law an…
1,641 upvotes
Aug 16, 2017, 1:10 AM UTC
Posted by /u/musedav
The Unite the Right rally was a gathering of far-right groups to protest against the removal of Confederate monuments and memorials from August 11th-12th. The official rally was cancelled due to a declaration of a state of emergency by Gov. Terry McAuliffe on the 12th. Despite t…