Republican candidate in North Carolina Supreme Court race concedes after judge rejects challenge

CNBC ^ | May 7, 2025 | Erin Doherty

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The Republican candidate for North Carolina’s state Supreme Court conceded the race Wednesday, ending his six-month crusade to overturn the election results in the perennial battleground state.

“While I do not fully agree with the District Court’s analysis, I respect the court’s holding — just as I have respected every judicial tribunal that has heard this case,” Judge Jefferson Griffin said in a statement.

“I will not appeal the court’s decision,” he added.

Griffin’s concession to Democratic Justice Allison Riggs came two days after a judge appointed by Republican President Donald Trump rejected Griffin’s legal challenges to the election.

The ruling by Richard E. Myers II, chief judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina, was a major win for Democrats in the key swing state. Riggs will serve an eight-year term on the Republican-majority court.

The decision also boosts Democrats’ chances of winning back the majority of the seven-justice court in 2028.

In his 68-page order, Myers wrote that “retroactive changes to election procedures raise serious due process concerns, particularly where those changes result in invalidating the votes of individuals who cast ballots in reliance on previously established rules.”

The order was a firm rejection of Griffin’s postelection legal challenges. Critics of Griffin’s arguments had warned that if he won, it could open the door to other candidates who lose races to challenge the results.

“You establish the rules before the game. You don’t change them after the game is done,” Myers wrote in his order.

The Democratic National Committee hailed Riggs’ win as “a righteous victory for democracy and a clear defeat of political gamesmanship.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: ballotfraud; challenge; democrats; election; electionfraud; gop; northcarolina; raleigh; recounts; riggedelection; supremecourt; votefraud

[alstewartfan]

Fear factor.

[tired&retired]

😥

[JoSixChip]

You establish the rules before the game. You don’t change them after the game is done

Tell that to all the judges that have post-election ruled that signatures or dates don't matter.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Should he challenge Tillis? Somebody’s got to. It’s sad Lara won’t be the one.

[13Sisters76]

NC voters, you know your system is rigged, right? What are you going to do about it?