Feds Trying To Unmask Reddit Users Who Criticize ICE

 Social media giant Reddit has been ordered to appear before a grand jury in Washington, D.C.

Social media giant Reddit has been ordered to appear before a grand jury in Washington, D.C., as part of the Trump administration's effort to unmask online critics of the 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.

Attorneys for the Reddit user say their client’s posts and their anonymity are squarely protected under the First Amendment and that ICE’s use of a grand jury marks a disturbing escalation for the agency after seeing its previous efforts to investigate political speech quashed in court. The subpoena was issued by federal prosecutors in the capital after ICE’s effort to identify the same user failed in California federal court.