May 09, 2025
North Carolina had already cemented itself as the nationwide leader in judicial election result recounts by the time an appellate judge squared off against a state Supreme Court incumbent last year, but experts suspect the epic legal battle that followed the vote may have set another record.
May 07, 2025
Republican candidate Judge Jefferson Griffin on Wednesday conceded the North Carolina Supreme Court race to Democratic incumbent Justice Allison Riggs on the heels of a federal judge's decision declaring his efforts to retroactively invalidate votes unconstitutional.
May 06, 2025
A North Carolina federal judge said the state Supreme Court's order requiring the state board of elections to "cure" the ballots of thousands of voters whom that high court retroactively deemed ineligible to vote was unconstitutional, reversing a win in a close race for a seat on its bench.
December 10, 2024
North Carolina Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin, a state Supreme Court candidate, asked a federal court to let him intervene in the state Democrats' suit seeking to block challenges he and other Republican candidates have filed against 60,000 ballots, stating the case's result will decide his race.
December 09, 2024
The North Carolina Democratic Party is looking to prevent Republican candidates who lost their races from invalidating more than 60,000 ballots amid an extremely tight state Supreme Court race, arguing the election protests run afoul of federal law safeguarding citizens' right to vote.