Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin is dropping his legal challenge against thousands of votes cast in his November 2024 election against Democrat Allison Riggs. Griffin's concession to Riggs Wednesday arrived six months after the election.
Jefferson Griffin’s challenge of his election loss has resulted in victories that will make NC’s elections more secure, but he will not enjoy the fruits of those victories.
A federal judge has ordered the North Carolina State Board of Elections to certify Democrat Allison Riggs as the winner of the 2024 state Supreme Court election. The decision rejects ballot challenges from Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin.
The federal judge overseeing the election dispute over a seat on North Carolina’s Supreme Court is giving parties in the case two more days to submit additional legal arguments. He indicated plans to issue a final ruling in the case after all briefs and arguments are filed.
Final written briefs arrived Monday as a federal judge gathered information about North Carolina’s disputed 2024 state Supreme Court election. The judge has indicated plans to issue a decision in the legal battle “as soon as practicable.”
The next major development in North Carolina’s unresolved 2024 state Supreme Court election is likely to depend on a ruling from a federal trial judge. There’s no deadline for his decision, though he has pledged to act “as soon as practicable.”
North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs is asking the state Appeals Court to reject a request from her opponent in the 2024 election for Riggs’ seat on the state’s highest court. The opponent, Jefferson Griffin, asked the Appeals Court last week to issue an order clarifying its plan for resolving the disputed election.
A federal Appeals Court panel split 2-1 Tuesday in granting a stay and injunction requested by Democratic state Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs in the election dispute involving her high court seat. The Appeals Court blocked a process North Carolina's highest court endorsed for resolving last fall's election result.
The two candidates in North Carolina’s unresolved state Supreme Court race, the state elections board, and other interested parties in an ongoing legal dispute all faced a Monday deadline to submit opening briefs before a federal trial judge hearing the case. US Chief District Judge Richard Myers could decide whether to block a state court process that would settle the election conducted five months ago.
Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin urges the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals to stay out of the latest stage in his legal dispute with state election officials and Democratic candidate Allison Riggs.
Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin argues in a new court filing that the North Carolina State Board of Elections plans to defy a court order in an ongoing election dispute. Griffin challenges the board’s plan to consider no more than 1,675 targeted ballots from last fall’s statewide election.
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