A political war has erupted over a state Supreme Court race in North Carolina more than two months after Democrats appeared to narrowly clinch the seat. Justice Allison Riggs, the Democratic incumbent,

One of North Carolina's most consequential 2024 races remains undecided, as a challenge mounted by the race's apparent loser is on an anything-but-straightforward path through state and federal courts.

According to an NPR database, 50 people from North Carolina have been charged in connection with the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Republican Jefferson Griffin is trying to overturn his election loss by asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to toss 5,500 military and overseas absentee ballots. He used the same method to vote in 2019 and 2020.

Riggs won the race by a slim, 734 vote margin in November out of more than 5 million votes cast, which is not unprecedented in a North Carolina Supreme Court race. Two recounts — one machine and one partially by hand — confirmed that victory.

Republicans are refusing to accept North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs' narrow victory in November

By Eduardo Medina and Michael Wines Heath Clay, a city councilman in Summerfield, N.C., left the voting booth last fall feeling that this was the most secure election he had ever voted in, partly because of a North Carolina law that requires both in-person ...

A contentious legal battle over whether to seat one of its own members threatens not only the future of the court's ideological balance, but its role in the public sphere

Griffin’s brief comes in response to the GOP-dominated state Supreme Court’s order last week that temporarily blocked the North Carolina State Board of Elections from certifying Riggs as the winner of the election. Instead, the order allows for the court to hear Griffin’s challenge to determine if 60,000 ballots will be tossed out or not.

A federal appeals court has agreed to hear more arguments involving a close election in November for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat. The 4th U.S.

RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal appeals court on Friday said it would hear more arguments involving an extremely close election in November for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat where the trailing ...

Republicans are making a blatant grab for power. It's nothing new for North Carolina, but it's still despicable.