Three Republican members of the North Carolina Court of Appeals issued the April order effectively blocking certification of the 2023 mayoral race in Pembroke. Court rules blocked the release of the judges' names for 90 days. Now the court has revealed that Judges Julee Flood, Michael Stading, and Thomas Murry made up the unanimous panel that issued the order.
Justice Allison Riggs was officially seated for her eight-year term in an investiture ceremony held Wednesday at the North Carolina Supreme Court. Chief Justice Paul Newby officiated the event and welcomed Justice Riggs back to her seat on the bench. On her social media, Riggs said, “It is my honor to serve the people of...
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.
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.
North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs is asking a federal Appeals Court for a stay and injunction in the election dispute involving her seat on the state’s highest court. The trial judge in the case has rejected requests to place his recent rulings on hold.
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