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Video: North Carolina Justice Allison Riggs warns of future threats to elections
This week, Allison Riggs thanked supporters for helping her over the six month fight, but also warned that future losing candidates may follow Jefferson Griffin’s playbook.
Video: After six months of legal battles, Allison Riggs takes NC Supreme Court oath
Six months after winning her NC Supreme Court election, Justice Allison Riggs was finally sworn in to office Tuesday by her fellow justice, Anita Earls.
The ceremony took place in the former NC House chamber at the state capitol, the site where the legislature voted in 1861 to secede at the beginning of the Civil War.
Six months after he lost, Jefferson Griffin concedes to Allison Riggs
While Griffin’s effort to steal last year’s NC Supreme Court election was thwarted, it opened a door to a reality where partisan courts could try to apply new rules to change the results of past elections.
Video: Allison Riggs vows to fight for military voters after North Carolina Supreme Court decision
Speaking to supporters in Raleigh, Justice Allison Riggs recently called for all military and overseas votes to count in the race for North Carolina Supreme Court.
Video: NC Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs on ‘creativity’ of voting rights advocates
Hundreds showed up at the “Disenfranchised Disco” recently in Alamance County to protest Republicans’ attempt to throw out 60,000 voters in the NC Supreme Court election.
Our Cardinal & Pine reporter Jessica F. Simmons caught up with Justice Allison Riggs, the winning candidate in that election, who talked to her about solidarity during “hard times.”
VIDEO: Justice Allison Riggs’ parents on being among the 60,000 voters Jefferson Griffin is challenging
Cardinal & Pine caught up with the parents of Justice Allison Riggs, who are among the 60,000 North Carolina voters Jefferson Griffin is hoping to throw out in the NC Supreme Court election.
Democrat Allison Riggs moves closer to victory in NC Supreme Court race
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...
Why Republicans are going after NC Supreme Court candidate Allison Riggs
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.
Allison Riggs Says North Carolinians Need to Know This About Voting During Coronavirus
The voting rights attorney, who argued NC’s partisan gerrymandering case at the U.S. Supreme Court, talks pandemic-era elections.
‘We shouldn’t be here’: Effort to throw out votes in NC Supreme Court race threatens election integrity, Riggs says
Justice Allison Riggs sat down with Cardinal & Pine this week to discuss her opponent’s challenges to 60,000 votes.
Recount confirms Riggs victory in NC Supreme Court Race, as focus shifts to 60,000 challenged ballots
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.
NC Supreme Court update: Riggs declares victory as her opponent challenges 60,000 votes
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.
VIDEO: Justice Riggs on the role of state courts in the future of abortion rights
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...
Video: ‘The Neverending Story’ of Jefferson Griffin’s attempt to steal an election in North Carolina
How Jefferson Griffin’s effort to overturn his election loss to Allison Riggs in North Carolina is essentially the world-eating “Nothing” from the children’s movie, “The Neverending Story.”
Jefferson Griffin’s effort to steal a seat on the NC Supreme Court now hinges on throwing out military votes
The North Carolina Supreme Court has opened the door wide enough for Griffin to sneak in and overturn his election defeat. But at a rally on Monday, Justice Allison Riggs vowed to fight to keep the seat she won.
Jefferson Griffin’s effort to overturn his election loss threatens judicial integrity, more than 200 NC judges and attorneys say
The North Carolina Court of Appeals will hold oral arguments on Friday in Jefferson Griffin’s attempt to throw out more than 65,000 votes so that he can win state supreme court election he lost to Allison Riggs. This week the state’s legal community warned Griffin that his lawsuit is damaging the state court system. You can read the full letter here.
When the lead in an election flips during provisional ballot counting, it’s not a sign of corruption.
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.
What’s with all the still uncounted provisional ballots in NC in 2024?
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.
The future of education in NC could be decided by the state Supreme Court
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.
Cooper Appoints Former Voting Rights Attorney to NC Supreme Court
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.
NC lawmakers override Josh Stein’s vetoes on climate change, gun laws
With some Democratic support, legislators defied Gov. Josh Stein, weakened state climate change laws and made it legal for private school teachers to take guns to school.
After GOP takeover of elections board, NC seeks info on 103,000 voters
NC State Board of Elections Executive Director Sam Hayes is setting off on a mission to correct 103,000 North Carolinians’ voting records from which some information is missing.
Opinion: N.C. can’t let sore loser candidates undermine our democracy
People who care about democracy breathed a sigh of relief when a federal judge put a stop to this in early May, ordering the state to certify the rightful winner of the election, Justice Riggs.
‘We ought to do what we promise’: A Veteran forum on care, democracy, and cost of inaction
At Cardinal & Pine’s first live event, North Carolina veterans, families, and lawmakers warned that proposed cuts to VA care—and attacks on democracy—threaten those who’ve already sacrificed the most.
Federal judge issues scathing rebuke of Jefferson Griffin’s attempt to steal an election
US District Judge Richard Myers, a Trump appointee, rejected Griffin’s bid to overturn his election loss in often cutting language. Over his 68-page ruling, Myers tears the heart out of Griffin’s legal case, and eats it a piece at a time.
NC election officials limit the voters at risk in Jefferson Griffin case. But courts could intervene again.
What does the 80s movie “The Neverending Story” have to do with developments in the Jefferson Griffin case? You got questions, we got answers.
Video: Jefferson Griffin moves closer to overturning his election defeat in North Carolina
The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Judge Jefferson Griffin’s effort to toss out over 60,000 ballots in the race for the North Carolina Supreme Court.
The GOP-controlled NC Court of Appeals might have just made Jefferson Griffin the winner of a race he lost
Two Republican judges on the NC Court of Appeals just brought defeated state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin one step closer to overturning his loss.
Four of the Republican judges in the Jefferson Griffin case were his de facto running mates in a previous election
The state court judges will soon decide whether to overrule the will of the voters and hand Griffin an election he lost. Social media posts from 2020 show the judges praising Griffin and feature smiling photos of themselves standing next to him.