This is important because the Democrats used to hold a 6-1 edge on the court. Then they lost two seats and had a 4-3 edge. That's when the mask really slipped and the Democrats on the state supreme court just went hog wild. They ruled for example that the voter ID law which the voters passed in 2018 was null and void "cuz racism". There was no proof of racism. Nobody ever polled the voters. Nobody could show that requiring ID would impact Black people more than anybody else ie that Black people in particular lacked ID. If anybody lacked an ID they could apply and get a state ID for free. But nope. Doesn't matter. "cuz racism" based on the legal standard of "cuz we think so" was all they needed.
Then the state legislature drew up the electoral map for US House seats as usual. Nope! Once again, the Democrat majority in the state supreme court ruled that the map had to be thrown out and a map they drew favoring Democrats would be substituted in its place. The Democrats stole 3 seats in the last Congress that way. Take a wild guess what the legal justification for this was. Yep! You guess it! "Cuz racism". Again, absolutely zero showing of racism in any way affecting how the legislature drew up the map.
Well now the voters had seen enough of this crap so in 2022 we threw out two more Democrats on the state Supreme Court and now it had a 5-2 Republican majority. They immediately overturned both decisions. So now we have voter ID and the Republicans took back 3 US House seats....which proved to be critical.
So the Democrats are desperate to try to retake control of the state Supreme Court again so they can use it to seek Democrat advantage again in this red state. So they poured the money into this Riggs chick's race and were so desperate to take a seat back that they were willing to engage in blatant election fraud like this. Now you know the back story.
Excellent, thank you for the detailed summary.