By Gene Nichol As most folks in North Carolina know, our state Supreme Court is a problem. In April, the Republican majority shocked election law experts, constitutional lawyers and judges across the ...

During her six years as elections director, Brinson Bell contended with COVID, Helene and an unprecedented effort to overturn ...

North Carolina’s election system, under new guidance from the auditor’s office, will get a new system of checks and balances ...

North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Jason Simmons recently spoke to WRAL about Republican Jefferson Griffin's failed state Supreme Court challenge, U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis's upcoming reelection bid ...

President Donald Trump's DOJ sued the North Carolina Board of Elections over its voter rolls, echoing some of the same claims ...

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Republican judicial candidate Jefferson Griffin might have lost his race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court, but he has changed the rules for future elections in the state. Until a ...

Roy Cooper, a Democrat, ran for reelection last November, facing Jefferson Griffin, a Republican N.C. Court of Appeals judge. Griffin will remain on the appeals court through 2029. Griffin and the ...

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice sued the North Carolina State Board of Elections on Tuesday in a complaint whose arguments closely mirror those used by Jefferson Griffin in his ...

RALEIGH — North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs was sworn in to a new term on Tuesday after the Democrat won a monthslong fight against her Republican rival’s challenges to ...