{"id":40759,"date":"2025-05-06T14:38:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T14:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/federal-judge-says-democrats-north-carolina-election-win-must-stand\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T14:38:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T14:38:29","slug":"federal-judge-says-democrats-north-carolina-election-win-must-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/federal-judge-says-democrats-north-carolina-election-win-must-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge says Democrat\u2019s North Carolina election win must stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Jefferson Griffin had sought to throw out votes for Democrat Allison Riggs in supreme court election<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/may\/06\/donald-trump-mark-carney-us-canada-tariffs-film-harvard-news-live-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>North Carolina election officials <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.nced.214953\/gov.uscourts.nced.214953.125.0.pdf\">must certify <\/a>Democrat Allison Riggs as the winner of a state supreme court election, a federal judge ruled on Monday, a significant development in the only race that has remained undecided from last year.<\/p>\n<p>Riggs, who currently sits on the court, defeated Jefferson Griffin, a Republican appellate judge, by 734 votes last November. Multiple recounts confirmed her win. But after election day, Griffin challenged more than 60,000 votes, mostly in Democratic-leaning counties, saying that election officials had wrongly allowed them to count.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/06\/north-carolina-supreme-court-election-ruling\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Jefferson Griffin had sought to throw out votes for Democrat Allison Riggs in supreme court election US politics live \u2013 latest updates North Carolina election officials must certify Democrat Allison Riggs as the winner of a state supreme court election, a federal judge ruled on Monday, a significant development in the only race that &#8230; <a title=\"Federal judge says Democrat\u2019s North Carolina election win must stand\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/federal-judge-says-democrats-north-carolina-election-win-must-stand\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Federal judge says Democrat\u2019s North Carolina election win must stand\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}