Daniel Rice

Contents - The Future of Press Freedom The Future of Press Freedom - July 2025

"The Future of Press Freedom," a book co-edited by @sonjawest.bsky.social & @randersenjones.bsky.social & produced in conjunction with @knightcolumbia.org, with chapters by a stellar line-up of 1st Amendment scholars (& also me), is available via open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

Didn’t know your dog’s name was Liberty, so initially read this as ‘’Liberty entails…’’ Genuinely thought your daughter was the responsible party!

There should still be some in my old office.

New paper! Along with my co-authors, Prof. Susan Appleton and Hannah Keidan, I have posted a short symposium foreword, "The Curiously Minor Role of Minor v. Happersett," on SSRN. Anyone interested in legal history, election law, or women's rights should check it out:

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I read "UT Law is hiring"

Interesting to see a Justice acknowledge that the Court might "narrow" one of its precedents. Usually, a majority just "declines to extend" an earlier decision, which is code for narrowing. Didn't realize they felt free to call this spade a spade!

Last fall, the editors of the Harvard Law Review invited me to write the Foreword for this year's Supreme Court issue.

My working draft is below, and comments are most welcome.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"drink higher": finish your OJ so I can go play
"tiny tunnels": Cheerios
"goobelies": blueberries
"dobbelies": strawberries
"hold you": hold me
"f**k": fork
"pooky pooky": I just heard thunder (which is spooky)
"not this kind": switch songs!
"I wanna stretch a legs": I'm done with this bath/car ride

Thank you, anonymous Con Law course evaluator.

Stubborn as a Mule Stubborn as a Mule [Fallon, Richard H. Jr.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Stubborn as a Mule

Little known fact about Dick Fallon: he fulfilled the fantasy of many law professors and published a mystery novel (available on Amazon for $1900--even more expensive than Hart & Wechsler!): www.amazon.com/Stubborn-Mul...

Very glad he's leaving us one more book: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Busted: Policing Women On Top with Courtney Cahill - Taboo Trades My guest today is Courtney Cahill, a Chancellor's Professor of Law at UC Irvine School of Law. Professor Cahill is a scholar of constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, sex equality, and LGBTQ equ...

This interview is so fascinating. Con Law folks – consider teaching these cases when you cover equal protection!

www.buzzsprout.com/1227113/epis...

Five pencils should keep me warm!

What were the biggest changes you made to medicine?

I'd forgotten about the unmarriageable Chief Justice John Rutledge Court!

But this is absurd and inconsistent with, e.g., Congress having the constitutional power to regulate foreign commerce!

Apache Stronghold would like a word!

Allotment and termination laws deserve strong consideration

Yiiiiiiiiikes

Heck yeah, congrats!!

Am I doing this right?

W&M Bill of Rights Journal's Symposium Issue on Memory and Authority is available at HeinOnline, Lexis, EBSCO, Westlaw, and the W&M Repository.

Check it out today!
scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmborj/vol33...

new R.L. Stine novel just dropped

Rock!!

Dylan Penningroth’s Before the Movement

161. The Court's Disastrous Ruling in the Third-Country Removal Case The majority did not just greenlight an especially odious immigration policy without any explanation; it did so in a case in which the government defied the district court—twice—with no consequence.

Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards.

Me, via “One First”:

The touchstone should be badness (however defined), rather than ancient badness. History shows that some legislative "experiments" were reprehensible and needed to be stifled! chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcont...) (/end)

Barrett is leveraging the fact that evolving understandings of equality came to be implemented rather formalistically (through the tiers of scrutiny). But it's arbitrary to require a lengthy record of horrendous behavior before applying heightened scrutiny. (3/)

Once again, something like history-and-tradition is concealing a judicial value judgment.

Barrett is also learning the wrong lessons about how modern EP doctrine developed. Those advances were wholly nontraditionalist; their authors found ways around the constraining force of the past. (2/)