NY Times: “As President Trump started his second term by pardoning violent insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Republicans in North Carolina already had a monthslong effort underway to achieve, essentially, the same goal the insurrectionists had four years ago: to overturn the results of a free and fair election.
On Nov. 5, North Carolina voters re-elected Justice Allison Riggs, a Democrat, to her seat on the Republican-controlled North Carolina Supreme Court. The contest was close, but clear.
The result of this race was in line with the results of several other statewide elections in North Carolina where voters rejected far-right extremism, including in the races for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state and superintendent of public instruction. North Carolinians also elected enough Democrats to break a heavily gerrymandered Republican supermajority in the state legislature.
Yet when Justice Riggs defeated her Republican opponent — Judge Jefferson Griffin — he refused to accept the choice of North Carolina’s electorate.”