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SCOTUS: The Highest Subreddit in the Land. Subreddit covering the Supreme Court of the United States, its past, present and future cases, its members, and its impact on the nation. Founded 2010 · 202.5K members · links only

203.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 85.7K upvotes, which works out to 422 per 1,000 members.

422peak upvotes per 1,000 members
203.3Kmembers
85.7Kbest post
8.1Kmost comments
411posts 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.

92%
Link 92% Video 5% Image 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

news 320 Opinion 66 Order 12 Amicus Brief 4 Cert Petition 3 Editorialized headline change 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

He’s about to do something so illegal

↑ 85.7K 💬 5.1K image 2025

Elon Musk Has Broken the Constitutional Order

↑ 59.4K 💬 3.5K link 2025

The Chief Justice and His Wife Took $20 Million From Firms He Rules On. I'm Filing for His Disbarment Today.

↑ 47.2K 💬 1.1K link 2026

Liberals Just Lost the Supreme Court for Decades to Come

↑ 46K 💬 8.1K link 2024

Huge Supreme Court docs leak exposes chief justice meddling in Trump's January 6 and election cases - read his memos

↑ 45.9K 💬 1.3K link 2024

Joe Biden: My plan to reform the Supreme Court and ensure no president is above the law

↑ 45.8K 💬 2.8K link 2024

The Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN Trump's "emergency" tariffs. The vote is 6–3.

↑ 42.9K 💬 1.9K link 2026

Americans increasingly see Supreme Court as too conservative, poll finds

↑ 42.3K 💬 1.1K link 2025

Remember: Donald Trump shouldn’t even be eligible for the presidency after Jan. 6

↑ 38K 💬 2.3K link 2024

Supreme Court rejects bid to overturn same-sex marriage ruling

↑ 35.8K 💬 910 link 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/scotus, in numbers

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

What is r/scotus?
r/scotus ("SCOTUS: The Highest Subreddit in the Land") describes itself this way: Subreddit covering the Supreme Court of the United States, its past, present and future cases, its members, and its impact on the nation. It was founded in 2010 and has 202.5K members.
How many members does r/scotus have?
r/scotus has about 203.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 411 of its posts; the biggest reached 85.7K upvotes, which is 422 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/scotus?
"He’s about to do something so illegal" reached 85.7K upvotes and 5.1K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/scotus.
What subreddits are similar to r/scotus?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/scotus?
Of the posts we hold, 92% are link posts and 5% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/scotus?
Across 411 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 21:00 UTC (32.8K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 18:00 UTC (21.1K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 21:00 UTC (18.9K 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/scotus?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/scotus has 27.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 14 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/scotus, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.