An Update on That GOP North Carolina Judge Who’s Trying to Steal a Seat He Just Lost
Although the 2024 election has long passed, one major race remains to be certified: a heated contest for a seat on the North ...
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s elegy for precedent | Wall Street Journal
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, appearing recently at the University of Louisville’s law school, was asked about eroding confidence ...
Under the Dome: Gov. Stein sues over GOP bill restricting judicial, utilities appointments
North Carolina Democratic Gov. Josh Stein sued top Republican leaders on Friday over a bill restricting his appointments ...
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EDITORIAL: State supreme court dispute should be argued accurately
The ongoing legal battle over a seat on North Carolina’s Supreme Court has generated plenty of heated rhetoric. Critics have labeled Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin’s election challenges ...
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Wake judge rules against Republican in hotly contested Supreme Court race
A Wake County Superior Court judge has ruled against Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin, who is trying to invalidate more ...
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Key arguments denied in ballots challenge for NC Supreme Court election: Griffin vs Riggs
Allison Riggs maintains a 734-vote lead over Republican rival Jefferson Griffin. The case is likely to reach the state ...
North Carolina judge upholds close Supreme Court election result, but more legal steps are expected
A North Carolina trial judge has upheld decisions by election officials to reject protests by the trailing candidate in a ...
Racial bias tainted jury selection and death sentence for a Black man in North Carolina, judge says
SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of a Black man in North Carolina, a judge ruled on ...
Judge affirms NC Board of Elections decision in state supreme court race
UPDATE: On Friday afternoon, Wake County Superior Court Judge William Pittman ruled that the North Carolina Board of Elections’ decision to allow the 60,000 ballots to be counted “should be, and ...
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Federal appeals judges try to untangle litigation over pending North Carolina court election
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal appeals panel exchanged arguments Monday with lawyers over a still-unresolved November election for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat, immersed in jurisdictional ...
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Documenting the damage of Judge Jefferson Griffin’s Supreme Court election challenge
As members of the Student Voting Rights Lab at Duke and North Carolina Central Universities, we have found abundant and incontrovertible evidence that youth voters in North Carolina – citizens between ...