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A recount has been ordered, but the 625-vote margin is likely too big for Republican Jefferson Griffin to make up. At the official end of the state’s vote-counting process, Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs, a Democrat, leads her Republican opponent Jefferson...
Allison Riggs is the Democrat who’s running for North Carolina’s Supreme Court this November. She’ll be on everyone’s ballot in this state. So let’s get to know her.
The voting rights attorney, who argued NC’s partisan gerrymandering case at the U.S. Supreme Court, talks pandemic-era elections.
Justice Allison Riggs sat down with Cardinal & Pine this week to discuss her opponent’s challenges to 60,000 votes.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections will hold a hearing on Wednesday to consider challenges to more than 60,000 votes the losing candidate Jefferson Griffin says should not have been counted. Most of those challenges are of voters who are missing some registration information, but there are many valid reasons those details could be missing, and the vast majority of voters disenfranchised by such a culling would be lawfully registered voters.
The margin between Riggs and Griffin is .02 percentage points, well below the threshold for being able to seek a recount. Griffin asked for and was granted the recount this week, a process which should be done by Nov. 27, election officials say. Griffin has also submitted some 300 pages of documents challenging the validity of more than 60,000 votes based on legal ideas courts have rejected in separate cases.
Following decisions by the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos are legally children and the Arizona Supreme Court reapproving the state’s 1864 abortion ban, the importance of state courts for the future of reproductive freedom is becoming clear. “…State supreme...
A few races in North Carolina have shifted during the provisional ballot counting period this year, including the race for NC Supreme Court between Allison Riggs and Jefferson Griffin. Here’s why this can happen.
As part of North Carolina’s thorough election canvassing process, county boards of elections are still researching provisional ballots to see whether they should be counted, a process that could still affect close contests like the state Supreme Court race between Justice Allison Riggs and Jefferson Griffin, who are separated by fewer than 8,000 votes.
If the past is any precedent, Justice Allison Riggs or Judge Jefferson Griffin will likely have a say over future decisions about the state’s public education system.
Before she became a judge, Allison Riggs had been heavily involved for more than a decade in litigation to block Republican redistricting maps and laws requiring photo identification to cast ballots.
For Judge Griffin to question the integrity of over 60,000 North Carolinians, and find various ways to try to overturn the will of the people is a sign that he is willing to forgo his judicial responsibilities of being faithful to the law and unswayed by partisan interests.
With his plea for the NC Supreme Court to overturn his election defeat, Jefferson Griffin and his allies in the Republican Party have resorted to lawlessness.
Jefferson Griffin, the Republican who lost the NC Supreme Court election, is seeking an unprecedented thing from the court he ran for. He wants them to change the outcome of an election.
Most of the challenges are of voters whose driver’s license or partial social security number information aren’t included in a state registration database. But there are many reasons that those details could be missing from the database, and the vast majority of voters disenfranchised by such a culling would be lawfully registered voters.
A recount has confirmed Democratic Justice Allison Riggs’ victory over Republican Jefferson Griffin, but Griffin has filed official challenges against 60,000 ballots, including those of Riggs’ parents and a prominent doctor. UPDATE: This post has been changed to add...
Every word of NC election chief Karen Brinson Bell’s rebuttal of misinformation spread by NC Senate President Phil Berger.
The election of a crucial seat on North Carolina’s highest court, which could have outsized power over abortion rights and democracy, looks like it will come down to about 600 votes.
North Carolina once again cemented itself as the most impossible-to-define political state in the country, voting for Trump by a sizable margin but favoring Democrats over Mark Robinson, Michele Morrow and Dan Bishop.
“I’m running because I love our home state, and I believe in its promise that if you work hard, where you come from should never limit how far you can go,” Josh Stein told the crowd at Casita Brewing Company in downtown Wilson.
The governor’s race is crucial. The presidential election is enormous. But in North Carolina, no race has bigger stakes for the democratic process than one low-visibility race for NC Supreme Court.
Your North Carolina absentee ballot will be delayed, possibly by weeks, because of a NC Supreme Court decision that many are calling partisan in nature.
In addition to the Supreme Court race, there are also three seats on the NC Court of Appeals on the ballot. Judge Carolyn Thompson, Marion Martin, and Ed Eldred are all incredibly qualified candidates. They believe in the rule of law, that due process and equal protection matter, and that power and money should not sway decisions.
Let’s find out who Jefferson Griffin, the Republican running for NC Supreme Court, is.
But if Riggs defeats Republican Appellate Court Judge Jefferson Griffin in November, and if Democrats can hold Justice Anita Earls’ seat in 2026, they have an opportunity to retake the majority in 2028 and reverse the rightward drift of the court.
A seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court is up for grabs in November, when voters will decide who sits on the most powerful court in the state—and who has the final say on some of the most important legal issues in the state, such as reproductive freedom.
A primer on the NC Supreme Court: Who’s on it, who’s running for re-election, and why it’s been accused of partisan bias.
“IVF allowed me to become a mother, one of the most special titles that I hold. It has given me opportunities and experiences that I did not think would be possible in the trenches of my infertility,” Beal said.
The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled this month that Justice Phil Berger Jr. did not have to recuse himself from the rehearing of the Leandro case, involving his father, State Senate Pro Tempore Phil Berger, allowing the younger Berger to help decide the outcome....
Judge Jefferson Griffin and another judge ruled that a mother could lose parental rights because she committed a crime while pregnant.
