Supreme Court is a story that trended on Reddit. Since the first thread appeared at Nov 2, 20:05 UTC, we have counted 13 threads about it in 4 communities, led by r/politics, r/news and r/unitedkingdom. Together they have drawn about 10.1K upvotes and 795 comments. It is also a rising Google search (“supreme court justices” in Google Trends for US).
What the sources report
Here is how the outlets linked in these threads describe what happened, word for word.
- NBC News: Supreme Court quickly rejects Trump effort to target alleged noncitizen voters in California
The Trump administration alleges about 20,000 noncitizens may be registered to vote in the state, an assertion local officials dispute.
- CNBC: Supreme Court rejects DOJ's bid to block California from counting disputed ballots
The Department of Justice's request to the Supreme Court in the California case came as it appeals dismissal of a lawsuit over Alaska's Senate election.
- CNN: Supreme Court rejects Trump’s attempt to segregate ballots in California | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court on Monday quickly shut down President Donald Trump’s effort to force California to sideline potentially thousands of ballots that the Justice Department claims may have been cast by noncitizens, rejecting the administration’s emergency request hours after it was filed.
- The Guardian: Supreme court rules against Trump over bid to force California to set aside ballots
Justice department had ordered state to segregate and not count 20,000 ballots from people it claims are non-citizens
- Los Angeles Times: Supreme Court rejects Trump administration's bid to set aside 20,000 California ballots
The appeal by the Trump administration came just before the midterm election, and after federal judges rejected the bid to set aside the 20,000 California ballots.
- Newsweek: Brett Kavanaugh asks Trump DOJ lawyer if religious exemptions offer "favor"
The High Court heard arguments on Tuesday in the case St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy.
Where Reddit is talking about it
| Community | Threads | Upvotes | Comments | First thread |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| r/politics | 10 | 5,016 | 620 | Nov 2, 20:05 UTC |
| r/news | 1 | 4,986 | 81 | Nov 2, 22:57 UTC |
| r/unitedkingdom | 1 | 76 | 93 | Nov 4, 13:34 UTC |
| r/nottheonion | 1 | 37 | 1 | Nov 4, 11:01 UTC |
The biggest threads
- Supreme Court quickly rejects Trump effort to target alleged noncitizen voters in Californiar/news · 4,986 upvotes · 81 comments · Nov 2, 22:57 UTC · NBC News
- Supreme Court quickly rejects Trump effort to target alleged noncitizen voters in Californiar/politics · 1,550 upvotes · 67 comments · Nov 2, 22:54 UTC · NBC News
- MAGA Panics Over Supreme Court Nightmare After Trump Routr/politics · 668 upvotes · 181 comments · Nov 4, 11:47 UTC · thedailybeast.com
- Supreme Court prepared to rule that publicly funded religious schools can reject children of same-sex couplesr/politics · 552 upvotes · 189 comments · Nov 3, 19:47 UTC · CNN
- Supreme Court rejects Trump attempt to set aside some CA ballotsr/politics · 736 upvotes · 45 comments · Nov 2, 23:18 UTC · usatoday.com
- Texas Supreme Court halts questioning over who’s behind fake trans advocacy mailers to familiesr/politics · 393 upvotes · 25 comments · Nov 3, 14:01 UTC · advocate.com
- Supreme Court rejects DOJ’s bid to block California from counting disputed ballotsr/politics · 423 upvotes · 9 comments · Nov 2, 23:04 UTC · CNBC
- Supreme Court rejects DOJ bid to set aside 20,000 California ballots from suspected noncitizensr/politics · 183 upvotes · 44 comments · Nov 2, 23:49 UTC · washingtonexaminer.com
- Dozens of arrests made as Supreme Court battle over Palestine Action ban beginsr/unitedkingdom · 76 upvotes · 93 comments · Nov 4, 13:34 UTC · lbc.co.uk
- Trump lawyers ask Supreme Court to set aside 20,000 California ballotsr/politics · 151 upvotes · 37 comments · Nov 2, 20:05 UTC · latimes.com
Timeline on Reddit
- First thread we found, in r/politics: “Trump lawyers ask Supreme Court to set aside 20,000 California ballots”
- First link to NBC News shared, in r/politics.
- The story reaches r/news: “Supreme Court quickly rejects Trump effort to target alleged noncitizen voters in California”
- The biggest thread so far is posted in r/news (4,986 upvotes, 81 comments by our last count).
- The story reaches r/nottheonion: “BMC launches demolition drive hours after Supreme Court freezes commissioner's salary”
- The story reaches r/unitedkingdom: “Dozens of arrests made as Supreme Court battle over Palestine Action ban begins”
How this page is made
SubMouse watches dozens of large, safe-for-work subreddits and Google's trending searches. When several communities start talking about the same event at the same time, we group those threads into one story and publish this page, then refresh it while the story keeps rising. The counts are ours; everything said about the event itself is quoted and credited to the post or outlet it comes from. Claims in Reddit posts are unverified unless an outlet confirms them. Upvote and comment counts come from Reddit's public data via the Arctic Shift archive and can lag. Spotted a mistake? Tell us. Not affiliated with Reddit.