A Republican candidate for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court in November's election conceded defeat on Wednesday, ending his legal efforts to have thousands of ballots thrown out six months after the final votes were cast.

The Republican challenger for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat has conceded last November’s election to the Democratic incumbent.

A Trump-appointed federal judge rejected a bizarre GOP attempt to disenfranchise voters AFTER they cast their ballots.

Judge Jefferson Griffin, the Republican candidate for the N.C. Supreme Court listens to testimony in Wake County Superior Court on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Griffin trails North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs by 734 votes following two recounts of the November 2024 election results.

A federal judge ordered North Carolina's election board to certify a sitting Democratic justice's electoral victory to the state's Supreme Court.

North Carolina’s Republican state auditor has made appointments to a new State Board of Elections because an appeals court said a law can still be enforced while it is challenged by Democratic Gov.

Judge Richard Myers of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, a Trump appointee, ruled against Griffin’s efforts, saying that the North Carolina Board of Elections must formally declare Riggs the winner of the race.

His lawyers never put forward evidence of voter fraud in the election, instead arguing that the rules set out by North Carolina election officials were not lawful. Election experts and voting ...

May 5 (Reuters) - A federal judge ordered North Carolina's election board on Monday to not throw out any ballots cast by voters in November in a close race for a seat on the state's Supreme ...