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        June 18, 2013 -
        
  
        In the wake of the NSA surveillance revelations, Gulf Coast advocate Cherri Foytlin considers her own experience of monitoring by federal authorities while pressing for justice from BP, part of a long history of U.S. spying on people's movements.
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        June 17, 2013 -
        
  
        The Texas-based group that targets alleged voter fraud is suing the IRS for refusing to grant its request for tax-exempt status. But the agency has cause to be skeptical about True the Vote's claims of non-partisanship.
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        June 17, 2013 -
        
  
        Former employees of Charlotte, N.C.-based Bank of America gave sworn statements that the bank lied to homeowners, denied loan modifications for bogus reasons and rewarded employees for sending homeowners to foreclosure.
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        June 16, 2013 -
        
  
        Facing South's report on Art Pope's role in killing a pioneering election reform in North Carolina garners national attention -- and a statement from Pope that doesn't dispute any facts of the original story.
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        June 14, 2013 -
        
  
        With special-interest spending on judicial races soaring, a new study finds that a state supreme court justice who gets half of his or her contributions from business groups votes in favor of business interests two-thirds of the time.
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        June 13, 2013 -
        
  
        For more than a decade, North Carolina's Republican mega-donor fought tirelessly to stop the state's pioneering program to free judges from special interest influence. This week, Pope's crusade came to a victorious end.
  
      
     
   
  
  
    
        
    
          
              
            
            
            
        June 12, 2013 -
        
  
        With the high court expected to hand down a ruling soon on the constitutionality of the key section of the landmark civil rights law, a new report warns of what could come to pass if Section 5 is weakened or eliminated altogether.