A three-judge federal Appeals Court panel questioned Friday why North Carolina state government lawyers challenged a lower court’s injunction in a case dealing with felon voting. The April 2024 injunction blocked state prosecutors from enforcing a law that created a Class I felony for convicted felons who vote in North Carolina elections without having their rights restored.
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.
A federal judge refused Tuesday to grant a stay of his recent orders in multiple lawsuits linked to a dispute over last fall’s state Supreme Court election. US Chief District Judge Richard Myers issued orders Saturday that called on the North Carolina State Board of Elections to proceed with a ballot “curing” process spelled out by a state Supreme Court order issued Friday.
North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs is asking the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals to step into the election dispute involving Riggs’ job. Riggs filed a notice of appeal in the case Monday. Activist groups working with Democratic operative Marc Elias' law firm also appealed.
The League of Women Voters of North Carolina filed a federal class-action lawsuit Monday morning aiming to protect military and overseas votes cast in last fall’s state Supreme Court election. Some of those votes could be dropped from the final tally under a court order issued Friday.
A federal judge has ordered the North Carolina State Board of Elections to proceed with a plan the state Supreme Court set out for resolving an election dispute over a seat on the state’s high court. The federal order blocks election officials from certifying the race’s results.
The North Carolina Supreme Court split 4-2 Friday afternoon in a decision designed to resolve the dispute over last fall’s high court election. A unanimous court agreed that more than 60,000 ballots cast by voters with incomplete voter registration records should count. But the fate of 5,700 other challenged ballots remains uncertain.
