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Daniel B. Rodriguez

@dbrodriguez.bsky.social
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Harold Washington Prof., Northwestern. Former dean (NU & USD). New book: Good Governing: The Police Power in the American States (Cambridge 2024). Public law, state/local, constitutionalism & democracy, legal ed & higher ed, law-tech, regulation.

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State Democracy Research Initiative @uwlawdemocracy.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
State and local governments are increasingly using property law to push back on ICE operations. Our new report unpacks the viability of these efforts, from banning new detention centers to barring officers from staging operations on city property. statedemocracy.law.wisc.edu/our-work/sta...
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State and Local Property Law Responses to Federal Actions
State and local governments are increasingly using property law to push back on ICE operations. This report unpacks the viability of these efforts, from…
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 20/04/2026
In a 4-3 ruling, the Commonwealth Court found that abortion access is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Pennsylvania Constitution.
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Pa. court recognizes ‘reproductive autonomy’ as a right, strikes down ban on public funding for abortion
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Crockett Houghton @crocketthoughton.com · 19/04/2026
Tim Curry, the absolute legend, turns 80 today. This man took huge swings.
A grid photo of 16 different characters all played by the legend Tim Curry.
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Ms. Rosenberg @msrosenberg.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
some people need to open their hearts 🦆
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Last Admin Law class of the semester. "Jarkesy. What the hell? Slaughter. Who knows?" And that's a wrap.
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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 14/04/2026
defending freedom of speech on college campuses by banning freedom of speech on college campuses
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Embracing the hand sanitizer. They roll this way in San Francisco.
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Talking at UC SF Law tomorrow. On Nextgen Bar Regulation. Going to be lit. Open for invites next school year.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
If Pope Leo remains “WEAK on crime,” his chances of getting reelected Pope go wayyyyy down
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Perhaps Ye should retire. To spend more time with his family and to continue his teaching and scholarship. @lawprofblawg.bsky.social
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Teaching Admin Law this semester has been a wild ride.
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Oh man. A+. Even without the mustard.
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Nature is awesome.
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
No . . .
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
No one doubts that medical treatment is subject to state regulation under the police power. The harder question is how such regulation is limited by constitutional rights, federal and state. Also, calling this a trans-rights case is misleading.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11/04/2026
The four humans who have traveled the furthest from Earth. (Via NASA.)
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
We're lulling every team into a false sense of security. Go Sox.
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Sketching a big book project (two volumes!) on the history and political dynamics of American constitutional federalism. Novel in focusing on both state and federal con law. Begins with the Voting Rights Act.
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Godspeed.
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Rory. Holy cow!
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
open.substack.com/pub/professo... A recommended read.
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Daniel B Rodriguez on StephenBainbridge.com
Valuable analysis of a troubling history.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Move slow and fix things
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Why is this front page news, seriously?
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Pretty similar to the Gettysburg address or JFK first inaugural, no?
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Anthony Sanders @ijsanders.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If you're in the DC area you can still register for this conference to be held this Friday, April 10, but time is running short if you want a free lunch! Register today!
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 08/04/2026
The people of Iran aren’t free. Iran can now charge tolls. The nuclear material sits EXACTLY where it did, in the same amount, since June. The regime is still in place with a younger ayatollah. Iran still was launching missiles, now with more money to rebuild. Period
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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 07/04/2026
I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.
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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Crescent Earth as viewed by the Artemis II crew yesterday (April 4th). flic.kr/p/2s5Z9yc
Crescent view of Earth.

NASA/Artemis II/Kevin M. Gill
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Dodgers in their own world. Scary good.
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Admiring Rev. Warnock and his message on this Easter Sunday.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour. The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”
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Snacks @snacks59.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 03/04/2026
It's honestly kind of mind-blowing that this is the first time in over fifty years that anybody has been able to take a picture like this. Images of the earth are completely familiar to us, but a human hasn't pointed a camera at the whole planet for half a century.
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Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
teleportation experts or waffle house experts?
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
😃Made my Day 😃
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State Court Report @statecourtreport.org · 30/03/2026
Last week's PA Supreme Court ruling that the state constitution bars mandatory life w/o parole for ppl convicted of felony murder is notable for many reasons, writes @nusl.bsky.social's Martha Davis, including the ways that international law was baked into the arguments and the justices’ opinions.
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Pennsylvania “Cruel Punishments” Decision Nods Toward International Human Rights Law
In striking down mandatory life-without-parole sentences for felony murder, the Pennsylvania justices differed on the appropriateness of looking to international law.
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Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Even as a dagger to my Blue Devil heart I can appreciate this 👇
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Well played.
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Terrible.
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Alicia Bannon @aliciabannon.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
NEW: the brilliant @sharonbrett.bsky.social looks at two Kansas cases that will determine whether the state constitution’s protections of bodily autonomy and dignity extend to transgender people. Read her analysis in @statecourtreport.org. statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...
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How Far Does the Kansas Constitution Go in Protecting Bodily Autonomy and Dignity?
Two recent transgender rights cases may help answer this question.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I was just helping my kid with their high school Gov homework, and was astonished to learn the United States has a Congress.
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Hard Left resistance-at-all costs virtue signaling is really boring. And it is clearly not scholarship. (No better when Right wingers do it).
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Amos Toh @amostoh.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
A clear-eyed rebuke of executive overreach and a decisive victory for the First Amendment. But the administration shows no signs of stopping its crusade against "woke AI," the data brokers' loophole is still wide open, and thousands are dying or displaced in an AI-fueled war. Where is Congress?
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Cubs opener at Wrigley likely canceled because of a hailstorm. So on brand, Chicago.
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Come for the pizza, stay for the Malort!
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
RIP Chip Taylor. Incandescent songwriter. Angel of the Morning, Wild Thing, et al. Saw him in Austin years ago. @andrewhickey.500songs.com
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Also, revisit the demise of the legislative veto. We are paying the price for Chadha, inter alia.
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Reinvorating legislative power means attending to structural matters and also norms. One suggestion: Folks need to revisit the marginalization of legislative history at the hands of hard-core textualists. This slipped away with nary a fight.
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Daniel B. Rodriguez @dbrodriguez.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Um, POTUS is not Shane Gillis. search.app/pSu6Q
search.app
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