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January 24, 2014 - A January 2010 Supreme Court decision further opened the floodgates to money in politics -- and inspired a growing grassroots push for reform.

December 23, 2013 - A look ahead to the changes in election procedures residents of Southern states can expect to see in the new year.

December 13, 2013 - This week top U.S. courts heard two cases challenging Environmental Protection Agency rules limiting health-damaging air pollution from power plants -- one related to mercury emissions and the other to cross-state air pollution coming mostly from Southern states and the Rust Belt.

November 5, 2013 - Which states have enacted tougher restrictions on voting since the Supreme Court's June decision in Shelby v. Holder?

November 1, 2013 - Though it hasn't gotten the attention that North Carolina and Texas have, Tennessee has one of the nation's strictest photo ID laws on the books. Now one of the state's congressmen has introduced a bill that would ease the burden such laws present to voters in Tennessee as well as in other states.

October 22, 2013 - The Virginia-based Tea Party Leadership Fund argues that requiring it to disclose its donors puts them in danger comparable to what NAACP members faced in Alabama in the 1950s. Campaign finance watchdogs beg to differ.

October 18, 2013 - A redistricting lawsuit has landed in the N.C. Supreme Court, where plaintiffs are seeking the recusal of Justice Paul Newby because his 2012 re-election campaign got much of its support from the same GOP group involved in drawing the new political maps. They cite a similar case out of West Virginia that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled for recusal.