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Justice Speaks Out About Republicans' Effort to Steal Her Seat
The fight over a 2024 Supreme Court race — and the future of American elections — rages on
By Tessa Stuart
May 2, 2025
North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs is still fighting for courts to recognize her 2024 victory.
Courtesy of Allison Riggs Campaign
A few weeks after the November 2024 election, Allison Riggs and her husband were over at her parents’ house in Durham, North Carolina, for dinner. Riggs, a candidate for state Supreme Court, was still waiting for her race to be called, but she wasn’t overly concerned with the delay.
A former elections lawyer, she knew that in close contests, the final results can often take days or weeks. And this race was close: On the evening of Nov. 4, Riggs trailed by 10,000 votes, before she ultimately closed the gap, winning by a margin of just 734 out of more than 5.5 million ballots cast.
Riggs, who was already serving on the North Carolina Supreme Court after being appointed by Gov. Roy Cooper to finish out the term of a retiring justice, assumed the counting (and recounting) would run its course and, at some point, the election would be certified. But 178 days later, the race still hasn’t been called.
The ongoing saga represents both a breathtaking escalation in the GOP’s war on free and fair elections, and a crucial test of the strategy Donald Trump’s legal team explored using in 2024 but didn’t need to, since he
won.
Snip...much, more here:
https://archive.ph/T8033
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/nc-supreme-court-gop-trump-allison-riggs-jefferson-griffin-1235330294/
By Tessa Stuart
May 2, 2025
North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs is still fighting for courts to recognize her 2024 victory.
Courtesy of Allison Riggs Campaign
A few weeks after the November 2024 election, Allison Riggs and her husband were over at her parents’ house in Durham, North Carolina, for dinner. Riggs, a candidate for state Supreme Court, was still waiting for her race to be called, but she wasn’t overly concerned with the delay.
A former elections lawyer, she knew that in close contests, the final results can often take days or weeks. And this race was close: On the evening of Nov. 4, Riggs trailed by 10,000 votes, before she ultimately closed the gap, winning by a margin of just 734 out of more than 5.5 million ballots cast.
Riggs, who was already serving on the North Carolina Supreme Court after being appointed by Gov. Roy Cooper to finish out the term of a retiring justice, assumed the counting (and recounting) would run its course and, at some point, the election would be certified. But 178 days later, the race still hasn’t been called.
The ongoing saga represents both a breathtaking escalation in the GOP’s war on free and fair elections, and a crucial test of the strategy Donald Trump’s legal team explored using in 2024 but didn’t need to, since he
won.
Snip...much, more here:
https://archive.ph/T8033
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/nc-supreme-court-gop-trump-allison-riggs-jefferson-griffin-1235330294/
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