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Law prof @ UNC-Chapel Hill. Con Law and Indian Law. Bio: https://law.unc.edu/people/daniel-rice/ SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1684746

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Daniel Rice @danielrice.bsky.social · Jun 17

Excited to share a draft of my most recent work, “The Moral Complacency of Federal Indian law” (forthcoming in the Minnesota Law Review): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The Moral Complacency of Federal Indian Law

<p><span>For all its association with historical tragedy, federal Indian law remains thoroughly amoral. The field draws little distinction between horrific and

papers.ssrn.com

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Daniel Rice @danielrice.bsky.social · 1d

you had anything left to learn about the mind of the South?

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Daniel Rice @danielrice.bsky.social · 1d

I'm no LeBron James, but sciatica has (seemingly permanently) eliminated my ability to do more than walk a couple of miles or feebly jog. I'd be very surprised if he comes back in full form.

The Athletic @theathletic.com · 1d

NEWS: LeBron James will miss the start of the Lakers' season due to sciatica on his right side, the team announced.

He will be re-evaluated in 3-4 weeks.

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Daniel Rice @danielrice.bsky.social · 4d

Here's to hoping the federal posse comitatus power stays buried...

Daniel Rice @danielrice.bsky.social · 7d

The sequence appears to be: (1) "All flag burners should be incarcerated"; (2) EO prioritizing the prosecution of flag burners who cause noncommunicative harms (because doctrine); and (3) "No, I'm actually demanding that literally everyone who burns a flag be imprisoned."

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7d

Trump calls for ICE and other cops to enforce his executive order banning flag burning, something that’s blatantly unconstitutional given Texas v Johnson (1989), which established flag burning as protected speech.

To ICE, Border Patrol, Law Enforcement, and all U.S. Military: As per my August 25, 2025
Executive Order, please be advised that, from this point forward, anybody burning the American Flag will be subject to one year in prison. You will be immediately arrested. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Daniel Rice @danielrice.bsky.social · 8d

new frontiers in compelled speech

Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 8d

“Some furloughed workers at the Dept of Education expressed shock…to find that their out-of-office email messages had been changed without their knowledge to reflect the Trump administration’s view that the government shutdown was the fault of “Democrat Senators.””

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Partisan Language Inserted Into Education Dept. Workers’ Automated Emails

www.nytimes.com

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 9d

A series of short posts from leading scholars about the constraints the First Amendment imposes on the government's authority to impose conditions on federal funding. Seems relevant! This is a @knightcolumbia.org series from earlier this year. knightcolumbia.org/research/fed...

Federal Funding and the First Amendment

knightcolumbia.org

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Daniel Rice @danielrice.bsky.social · 13d

Nice.

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Daniel Rice @danielrice.bsky.social · 13d

Toddler’s first no-nap day. Help.

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Jeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social · 15d

This man is ignorant. Wounded Knee was a massacre, not a battle.

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Daniel Rice @danielrice.bsky.social · 15d

Not many basketball camps come with a disclaimer of state action!

Daniel Rice @danielrice.bsky.social · 15d

Will give this advice to my research assistants

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 23d

Nothing is more central to a free society than the right to criticize one’s government. Nothing.

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Daniel Rice @danielrice.bsky.social · 24d

Incredible

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Daniel Rice @danielrice.bsky.social · Sep 11

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Adam Zimmerman @profadamszimmerman.bsky.social · Sep 11

1. My 9-11 story. On September 11, I was clerking for Judge Jack B.Weinstein—a legendary jurist, scholar and person—who also happened to have an unobstructed view of the World Trade Center from the Brooklyn federal courthouse.

Daniel Rice @danielrice.bsky.social · Sep 10

Trying to imagine what the Justice Douglas book tours would have been like!

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Daniel Rice @danielrice.bsky.social · Sep 9

I like how you're a professional blogger, but you blog only grudgingly and when you see absolutely no other option

Daniel Rice @danielrice.bsky.social · Sep 9

Looking forward to attending this symposium in February!

prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/...

PrawfsBlawg: Call for Speakers: History and Tradition on the Roberts Court

prawfsblawg.blogs.com

Daniel Rice @danielrice.bsky.social · Sep 8

Here's to hoping for a Gobitis —> Barnette mood shift. Too bad it'll likely require extraordinary suffering.

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · Sep 8

#BREAKING: With no explanation (save for a solo concurrence by Justice Kavanaugh), #SCOTUS has frozen lower-court rulings that had enjoined allegedly suspicion-less arrests as part of "roving" immigration patrols in California.

Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson, dissents:

www.supremecourt.gov

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William Baude @williambaude.bsky.social · Sep 8

Sincerely wondering: what remedies does Justice Kavanaugh believe are and should be available in federal court these days for excessive force violations by federal immigration officials?

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Daniel Rice @danielrice.bsky.social · Sep 7

the classic designated public forum.

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Daniel Rice @danielrice.bsky.social · Sep 7

saw a DRINKING COW MILK in Durham the other day!

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · Sep 4

This strike is outright murder even if you accept all the legal arguments the Obama admin made in support of its drone strikes, which you shouldn’t. www.justsecurity.org/119982/legal...

Legal Issues Raised by a Lethal U.S. Military Attack in the Caribbean

The Trump administration’s extraordinary lethal attack on this purported smuggling vessel raises significant potential legal issues.

www.justsecurity.org

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Daniel Rice @danielrice.bsky.social · Sep 3

‘’The Supreme Court’s Two Bodies’’

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Sep 2

BREAKING: On a 2-1 vote, D.C. Circuit denies the Trump administration's request to let Trump fire a Federal Trade commissioner during appeals.

Citing Humphrey's Executor, about the FTC: "To grant a stay would be to defy the Supreme Court's decisions that bind our judgments. That we will not do."

United States Court of Appeals
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
No. 25-5261
September Term, 2025
President Trump fired Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter without cause. The district court ordered her reinstatement. The government now seeks a stay of that decision pending appeal. That motion must be denied. The government has no likelihood of success on appeal given controlling and directly on point Supreme Court precedent. Specifically, ninety years ago, a unanimous Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Federal Trade Commission Act's for-cause removal protection for Federal Trade Commissioners. See Humphrey's Executor v. United States, 295 U.S. 602 (1935). Over the ensuing decades-and fully informed of the substantial executive power exercised by the Commission-the Supreme Court has repeatedly and expressly left Humphrey's Executor in place, and so precluded Presidents from removing Commissioners at will. Then just four months ago, the Supreme Court stated that adherence to extant precedent like Humphrey's Executor controls in resolving stay motions.
To grant a stay would be to defy the Supreme Court's decisions that bind our judgments. That we will not do.

Daniel Rice @danielrice.bsky.social · Aug 27

Wow!

John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · Aug 27

Remember, when you are getting ready to sell your house, that you should hide the stolen painting before your realtor takes living room wall photos and posts them online.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Nazi looted art discovered after 80 years thanks to real estate ad

A painting stolen from a Jewish collector during the Second World War has been discovered in Argentina after the daughter of a high-ranking Nazi put her home up for sale.