The North Carolina GOP’s Latest Ploy to Steal a State Supreme Court Seat
1 week, 1 day ago

The North Carolina GOP’s Latest Ploy to Steal a State Supreme Court Seat

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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The federal court process must play out to ensure that North Carolina’s voters are not disenfranchised in one of the most important state races of the 2024 election season. The North Carolina Democratic Party has filed a federal lawsuit to protect the rights of the 60,000 voters who would be disenfranchised if the state accepts Griffin’s arguments. Griffin wants state court judges to rule—after the election—that tens of thousands of voters were ineligible and that their votes shouldn’t count. Like Trump in 2020, North Carolina Republicans are shedding doubt on the outcome of this year’s state Supreme Court election because they lost.

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Republican candidate for the North Carolina Supreme Court suffers legal setbacks in close race
3 days, 21 hours ago

Republican candidate for the North Carolina Supreme Court suffers legal setbacks in close race

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — The trailing Republican in a tight North Carolina Supreme Court race suffered legal setbacks Friday as a federal judge refused to halt any upcoming official declaration that his Democratic rival won their November election. As for the federal court action, Griffin’s attorneys had told Myers the temporary restraining order was needed because the board was poised “in …

Trailing North Carolina Supreme Court candidate asks that court to get involved in his race
6 days, 20 hours ago

Trailing North Carolina Supreme Court candidate asks that court to get involved in his race

Politico  

But Griffin went to the Supreme Court instead and asked the justices to rule by this coming Monday on his request to prevent a certificate from being issued to Riggs and to suspend the 10-day deadline to file an appeal in Wake County court. Five Republicans are on the seven-member Supreme Court, which has been a partisan flash point in …

North Carolina Republicans Are At It Again
54 years, 11 months ago

North Carolina Republicans Are At It Again

Slate  

This week, North Carolina Republicans continued making moves in the halls of power to both seize authority over future elections and steal a victory for an apparently defeated Republican high-court candidate. As the votes were tallied and Democratic Justice Allison Riggs secured victory by just 722 votes this week, Republicans in the North Carolina Legislature rolled out a massive, wide-ranging …

North Carolina GOP Files Ethics Complaint Over Description of Its Abortion Views
1 month, 4 weeks ago

North Carolina GOP Files Ethics Complaint Over Description of Its Abortion Views

Slate  

Three Republicans in the North Carolina Legislature have filed an ethics complaint against state Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs, a former civil rights lawyer who is running for reelection. Yet Riggs’ opponent, Judge Jefferson Griffin of the North Carolina Court of Appeals, had an attack ad ready to go referencing the “investigation” almost as soon as the ethics complaint was …

North Carolina governor appoints Democrat to fill Supreme Court vacancy
1 year, 3 months ago

North Carolina governor appoints Democrat to fill Supreme Court vacancy

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper appointed an appellate judge and longtime voting rights attorney to fill a vacancy on the North Carolina Supreme Court created when one of two Democratic justices stepped down early. Riggs currently serves on the North Carolina Court of Appeals, a position Cooper appointed her to last December to fill another vacancy. He also …

Supreme Court rejects GOP in North Carolina case that could have reshaped elections beyond the state
1 year, 5 months ago

Supreme Court rejects GOP in North Carolina case that could have reshaped elections beyond the state

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that state courts can curtail the actions of their legislatures when it comes to federal redistricting and elections, rejecting arguments by North Carolina Republicans that could have dramatically altered races for Congress and president in that state and beyond. The practical effect of Tuesday’s decision is minimal in North Carolina, where the state …

North Carolina’s Devastating New Abortion Ban and the Fight Ahead
1 year, 7 months ago

North Carolina’s Devastating New Abortion Ban and the Fight Ahead

Slate  

On Tuesday night, over the cries of hundreds of protesters, Republican lawmakers in North Carolina overrode the Democratic governor’s veto to enact an unpopular 12-week abortion ban, a bill that they refused to debate in a public hearing. Barber said that he began this work after the Legislature’s “mean-spirited quadruple attack” on poor people: raising taxes on working-class families, cutting …

Three Cases in North Carolina, Decades of Democracy Undone
1 year, 7 months ago

Three Cases in North Carolina, Decades of Democracy Undone

Slate  

I’m not certain North Carolina has become the most anti-democratic state in the union. Justice Anita Earls thundered in dissent that the ruling “stripped” North Carolina voters of the right to choose their elected officials and “demolished the Court’s standing as an independent check on the excesses of the other two branches of government.” But Newby wasn’t going to let …

N. Carolina justices hand GOP big wins with election rulings
1 year, 7 months ago

N. Carolina justices hand GOP big wins with election rulings

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — In massive victories for Republicans, the newly GOP-controlled North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday threw out a previous ruling against gerrymandered voting maps and upheld a photo voter identification law that colleagues had struck down as racially biased. Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who leads a national Democratic group whose affiliate helped support the redistricting litigation, …

North Carolina Supreme Court to revisit school funding
1 year, 9 months ago

North Carolina Supreme Court to revisit school funding

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — A ruling by the North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday siding with the state controller means the court will revisit a school funding case in which an earlier lineup of justices issued a landmark opinion just four months ago. The Supreme Court upheld Lee’s ruling in a 4-3 decision in November, saying the state constitution’s declaration addressing …

Justices skeptical of elections case that could alter voting
2 years ago

Justices skeptical of elections case that could alter voting

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed skeptical of making a broad ruling that would leave state legislatures virtually unchecked in making rules for congressional and presidential elections. Republicans from North Carolina who brought the case to the high court argue that a provision of the U.S. Constitution known as the elections clause gives state lawmakers virtually total control …

Republicans retake control of North Carolina Supreme Court
2 years, 1 month ago

Republicans retake control of North Carolina Supreme Court

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Two Republicans running for seats on the North Carolina Supreme Court beat their Democratic opponents Tuesday, flipping the partisan makeup of the high court in Republicans’ favor for the first time since 2016. “I’m honored and humbled to have been elected to the NC Supreme Court by the people of this great state,” Allen wrote in a …

High stakes in N. Carolina court races with majority on line
2 years, 1 month ago

High stakes in N. Carolina court races with majority on line

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — The two North Carolina Supreme Court seats up for election in November have taken on extra significance as the outcome could flip the court’s partisan makeup during a period of political polarization. Ervin, the grandson of late Watergate committee chairman Sen. Sam Ervin Jr., said he’s already met that standard during his appellate career, calling himself “pretty …

The Biggest Judicial Races in the Country Are in North Carolina. Democrats Are Losing.
2 years, 2 months ago

The Biggest Judicial Races in the Country Are in North Carolina. Democrats Are Losing.

Slate  

North Carolina voters will soon decide whether their state constitution will be defined by a slim Democratic majority that has broadened civil rights or by a new conservative majority that will narrowly interpret the rights of voters, criminal defendants, and people seeking abortion care. In recent North Carolina Supreme Court elections, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee and the state Democratic …

2020's real battlegrounds are courts and Trump has an advantage
4 years, 1 month ago

2020's real battlegrounds are courts and Trump has an advantage

India Today  

After several hours of arguments on Monday, a federal judge in Texas ruled that 1,27,000 ballots that were cast by the innovative measure of drive-through voting in Harris County in the state, would after all, be counted. >> As for Wisconsin, a state that Trump won narrowly in 2016, the Supreme Court rejected a request to extend the deadline for …

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