Sanctions Help World Bank Fight Financial Crime

The World Bank’s commitment to debarment against companies involved in World Bank-funded projects who commit financial crime remains strong, according to latest figures . When firms or individuals are found to have engaged in fraudulent, corrupt...

VA Gov Grants Felons Right to Vote

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) issued an executive order last month that will allow more than 200,000 convicted felons to run for public office and to vote in the swing state in the November presidential election. The governor said restoring felons’...

NC Voter ID Law Upheld

A federal judge has upheld a North Carolina voter ID law passed after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling in Shelby County v. Holder allowing states like North Carolina with a history of discrimination to make changes to their voting laws without...

Supreme Court Upholds AZ Remap

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously voted last month to uphold the legislative district map drawn by an independent commission in Arizona in 2012. Republicans had challenged that map, alleging it placed more voters in GOP districts than in Democratic ones...

Politics In Brief - May 2 2016

ME Gov Vetoes Clean Election Fix MAINE Gov. Paul LePage (R) vetoed a bill approved by the Legislature last month that would have pumped $500,000 into the state’s Clean Election Fund, enough to support the clean election candidates already running...