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Allison Riggs: 'This Is a Fight for the Very Soul of Democracy'
Allison Riggs: ‘This Is a Fight for the Very Soul of Democracy’
By Democracy Docket
April 4, 2025
The North Carolina appeals court’s decision in Republican challenges against incumbent Democratic Justice Allison Riggs’ victory in the state’s Supreme Court race last year is “like dropping a match in a really dry forest,” she told told Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias in an interview Friday.
“This does not just affect North Carolina,” Riggs said. “This is like dropping a match in a really dry forest. And if we let this kind of anti-democratic effort take hold, we will not be able to contain it. So this is a fight for the very soul of democracy. Today’s decision was deeply misinformed.”
Riggs is the Democratic incumbent in the race for a state Supreme Court seat. After she narrowly won the race, her Republican opponent, Judge Jefferson Griffin, challenged tens of thousands of votes.
By a 2-1 vote, a three-judge panel — composed of two Republican judges and a Democratic judge — overturned a lower-court ruling dismissing the challenges. The panel invalidated the votes of around 60,000 people unless they fix ballot or registration errors that were made by election officials.
Riggs has said she plans to appeal the decision to the North Carolina Supreme Court.
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https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/allison-riggs-this-is-a-fight-for-the-very-soul-of-democracy/
By Democracy Docket
April 4, 2025
The North Carolina appeals court’s decision in Republican challenges against incumbent Democratic Justice Allison Riggs’ victory in the state’s Supreme Court race last year is “like dropping a match in a really dry forest,” she told told Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias in an interview Friday.
“This does not just affect North Carolina,” Riggs said. “This is like dropping a match in a really dry forest. And if we let this kind of anti-democratic effort take hold, we will not be able to contain it. So this is a fight for the very soul of democracy. Today’s decision was deeply misinformed.”
Riggs is the Democratic incumbent in the race for a state Supreme Court seat. After she narrowly won the race, her Republican opponent, Judge Jefferson Griffin, challenged tens of thousands of votes.
By a 2-1 vote, a three-judge panel — composed of two Republican judges and a Democratic judge — overturned a lower-court ruling dismissing the challenges. The panel invalidated the votes of around 60,000 people unless they fix ballot or registration errors that were made by election officials.
Riggs has said she plans to appeal the decision to the North Carolina Supreme Court.
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https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/allison-riggs-this-is-a-fight-for-the-very-soul-of-democracy/
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