A Democracy On Life Support -- Tom Sullivan

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https://digbysblog.net/2025/05/02/a-democracy-on-life-support/

State Supreme Court seat still in limbo

A lot of very good context provided by Tom before these final excerpts.

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On appeal to a 5-2 Republican Supreme Court Riggs still sits on while Griffin contests her win. With state issues settled in Griffin’s favor, Riggs has appealed to federal court.

Why should you care? (Axios):

Between the lines: Democrats, voting rights activists and legal experts have warned that if Griffin succeeds, it could give way to more candidates moving to change election rules long after a race is over.

“The big story here,” said Anne Tindall, a lawyer with Protect Democracy told The New York Times, “is that never, ever, ever before have we seen a court, months after an election, change election rules to retroactively disqualify a class of voters and flip the results.”
“If you can do that,” she added, “no election is safe — period.”

If Griffin and the NC GOP succeed in stealing this state Supreme Court seat, they’ll be on track to do the same with any close election anywhere in the country where they control the courts. Donald Trump announced that strategy in October 2016.

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In MAGAstan self-governance is heads, I win, tails, you lose.