Overton: Scalia's
'Voter Access' Case
The Huffington Post | Professor Spencer Overton writes on this week's Supreme Court ruling on the Arizona voting registration case: "Before assuming that Justice Scalia is a recent convert to voting rights protections, recognize that language in today's opinion could eventually undermine voting rights. The details of the opinion could empower state and local partisans who manipulate voting rules. The opinion's reasoning could also hamper federal efforts to protect military voters and restore former offender voting rights."
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Faculty in the News
NBC News . June 15, 2013
Steven Schooner explains issues of the government using contractors versus employees in regard to the Booz Allen Hamilton systems analyst's leak of the NSA PRISM program. More
The Washington Post . June 14, 2013
Daniel Solove pens the Outlook piece, "Five Myths About Privacy." More
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The Same-Sex Marriage Cases: An In-Depth Look at the Legal Issues
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