The North Carolina State Board of Elections was ordered by a federal judge to carry out the state Supreme Court plan in the ...

Griffin is trailing Democratic Associate Justice ... decisions from being carried out immediately. U.S. Chief District Judge Richard Myers – who was nominated by President Donald Trump during ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's Supreme Court decided last week that ballots from two categories should have been left ...

Incumbent North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs is 734 votes ahead of Judge Jefferson Griffin ... And Justice Richard Dietz, a Republican dissenting justice, was equally scathing ...

The Republican-dominated court disagreed with Griffin’s argument that over 60,000 votes should be tossed for registration ...

There is still legal friction about the number of ballots that state courts say must be scrutinized by election officials tasked with removing them.

“Judge Griffin has served the people of this state ... rule against Griffin — as has a Republican on the court, Justice Richard Dietz. If one more justice joins them in rejecting Griffin ...

On Friday, lawyers for Judge Jefferson Griffin asked ... Republican Justice Richard Dietz dissented and warned that Griffin’s lawsuit would “fuel an already troubling decline in public faith ...

But the court also said that some ballots could end up being tossed out, giving Griffin, who is challenging ... the early days of this case,” GOP Judge Richard Dietz wrote in his dissent.