GOP NC Supreme Court Candidate Finally Concedes
The unprecedented GOP attempt to overturn a Democratic victory in a North Carolina State Supreme Court race suffered a major setback on Monday.
It came at the hands of a stalwart conservative judge appointed by Donald Trump.[image or embed]
-- Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) May 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The sole Republican judge to defend the rule of law in North Carolina is Republican Justice Richard Dietz, who has remained steadfast in his belief that rewriting the rules of an election after the election is unlawful and unwise. Resisting the pressures of partisanship in North Carolina is no easy feat these days, and his courage should be commended.
Outside of North Carolina, however, Griffin's crusade is over. North Carolina may be a state where Republicans get to do whatever they want to do, but federal judges aren't willing to participate in what is essentially a judicial coup. Griffin can appeal this ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals, but they shouldn't expect a different result there. That court has already ruled against the argument once.
It's yet another reminder of how baldly and awfully partisan judges in North Carolina have become. The depth and diversity of people who know this lawsuit has no merit is incredible. It includes voters from both parties, elections officials of all political stripes, military leaders and hundreds of judges, government officials and attorneys from across the political spectrum. Now, a Trump-appointed federal judge has agreed. It's North Carolina's Republican judges who are the extreme outliers.
Republicans cannot lament a rogue judiciary or overreach by "radical left judges." They cannot accuse the judge who issued the ruling of partisan bias, although they may still try. This is a conservative judge, appointed by Donald Trump. He is a member of the conservative Federalist Society and the National Rifle Association. It's exactly the kind of judge Republicans would hope " or expect " to side with them. But he isn't " he's rebuking Republican logic and laying bare their attempt to steal an election.
A Trump-appointed judge rebukes NC judges' quest to overturn an election
However, Myers has put his own order on hold for seven days to give Griffin a chance to appeal.
from the primary source:
archive.is
www.newsobserver.com
The court ruled that this omission, which affected over 60,000 of the challenged voters, was likely not the voters' fault and therefore could not be used to cancel their ballots.
When Republicans took control of the elections board last week for the first time in nearly a decade,
omission
not the voters' fault
Republicans took control of the elections board last week for the first time in nearly a decade
(so, dem control of the election board resulted in 'omissions')
the primary source:
apnews.com
presented an unconstitutional burden
#10 | Posted by Nixon
in context:
A state law had authorized these persons to vote in state elections. While these people had no substantive right to have their votes counted, Myers wrote, there is "sufficient evidence" that some people are mistakenly on the list and have no opportunity to contest their ineligibility, which "represents a unconstitutional burden on the right to vote."
Griffin wanted Myers to leave undisturbed the state courts' decisions, which also directed that most of the voters with otherwise ineligible ballots get 30 days to provide identifying information for their race choices to remain in the tally.
The problem registrations resulted from a decade of dem control of the election board, because dems set rules to stack the deck in their favor and they "doesn't give a ---- about the constitution other than their poorly understood interpretation of the 2nd amendment."
The takeaway here I can see, is that some ballots were indeed not compliant, but fixing them retroactively is decided to be a problem. Next time, maybe don't let dems control your election board, because they don't do a good job and later will claim victim status.
^dude I been here like 20 years
#25 | Posted by chiligordo
Joined 2025/04/28
MAGA math strikes again
#35 | Posted by Sycophant
-It's not so simple.
-That's fine for those votes, but there are also these:
While these people had no substantive right to have their votes counted, Myers wrote, there is "sufficient evidence" that some people are mistakenly on the list and have no opportunity to contest their ineligibility, which "represents a unconstitutional burden on the right to vote."
(I'll leave it to you to discover exactly he's talking about here. It's in the primary source link):
www.newsobserver.com
-Also these:
Griffin wanted Myers to leave undisturbed the state courts' decisions, which also directed that most of the voters with otherwise ineligible ballots get 30 days to provide identifying information for their race choices to remain in the tally.
-Already dropped at the state level were these:
While Griffin initially challenged over 65,000 ballots, the number of votes in contention was significantly reduced by the Republican-dominated North Carolina Supreme Court last month when it rejected his largest challenge, which dealt with voters who didn't have certain identifying numbers in the state's registration database. The court ruled that this omission, which affected over 60,000 of the challenged voters, was likely not the voters' fault and therefore could not be used to cancel their ballots.
-So whose fault was it, this omission?
When Republicans took control of the elections board last week for the first time in nearly a decade
-I see, WHO was in charge of doing the registrations then? The registrations featuring this omission which affected over 60,000 registrations? THE DEMS WHO HAD CONTROL OF THE ELECTION BOARD FOR TEN YEARS? Gee I wonder if there's a pattern to these omissive entries, like, say.. CONCENTRATED IN HEAVY DEM DISTRICTS?
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