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r/LegalNews

Legal News: News and commentary about legal issues worldwide. News, commentary, new cases & legislation, and current events in the legal profession, both in the USA and abroad. Founded 2008 · 53.7K members · links only

55.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 31.4K upvotes, which works out to 567 per 1,000 members.

567peak upvotes per 1,000 members
55.3Kmembers
31.4Kbest post
1.9Kmost comments
528posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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The topics it labels

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What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Bombshell Uncovered: Evidence Shows Blanche Likely Committed Witness Bribery, Evidence Tampering, and Conspiracy in New Mexico. Those Crimes Carry at…

↑ 31.4K 💬 1.2K link 2026

Pam Bondi Implicated in As Much As $5.5 Million in Insider Trading

↑ 29K 💬 673 link 2026

Samuel Alito Has Exposed Himself to Felony Bribery Charges Under New Jersey Law. I’m Filing for His Disbarment and Submitting a Criminal Referral.

↑ 28.3K 💬 393 link 2026

Clarence Thomas Could Be Charged With Felony Tax Fraud in Virginia on Monday

↑ 27.9K 💬 343 link 2026

I was elected 6 weeks ago. Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to swear me in.

↑ 25.7K 💬 401 link 2025

Todd Blanche Knowingly Disobeyed a Federal Court Order on the Epstein Files, So I Filed for His Disbarment in New York

↑ 24.1K 💬 105 link 2026

Elon Musk Named in Bombshell Election Meddling Claim

↑ 23.7K 💬 405 link 2026

The Chief Justice and His Wife Took as Much as $20 Million From Firms He Rules On.

↑ 23.3K 💬 645 link 2026

Kash Patel Under Fire After Dodging Nine Straight Yes-or-No Questions on Epstein Files and FBI Firings During Hearing

↑ 23.2K 💬 377 link 2026

Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump Are Running a $1.2 Billion Felony Fraud Scheme that is Fully Prosecutable in New York.

↑ 22.2K 💬 310 link 2026

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r/LegalNews, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/LegalNews?
r/LegalNews ("Legal News: News and commentary about legal issues worldwide") describes itself this way: News, commentary, new cases & legislation, and current events in the legal profession, both in the USA and abroad. It was founded in 2008 and has 53.7K members.
How many members does r/LegalNews have?
r/LegalNews has about 55.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 528 of its posts; the biggest reached 31.4K upvotes, which is 567 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/LegalNews?
"Bombshell Uncovered: Evidence Shows Blanche Likely Committed Witness Bribery, Evidence Tampering, and Conspiracy in New Mexico. Those Crimes" reached 31.4K upvotes and 1.2K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/LegalNews.
What subreddits are similar to r/LegalNews?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/LegalNews?
Of the posts we hold, 100% are link posts and 0% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/LegalNews?
Across 528 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 13:00 UTC (13.4K avg upvotes), Sunday at 12:00 UTC (10.6K avg upvotes), Sunday at 22:00 UTC (10.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/LegalNews?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/LegalNews has 18.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 64 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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