Though I expect the Supreme Court to overturn the ruling from U.S. District Judge Richard E. Myers requiring North Carolina to certify the victory of Democratic incumbent state Supreme Court judgeAllison Riggs.
The core of the ruling is that one should not be allowed to change election rules retroactively when they do not like the results:
In a ruling that could put an end to nearly six months of legal battles over North Carolina’s contested Supreme Court election, a federal judge on Monday ruled against the Republican candidate’s effort to overturn his narrow loss.
Chief U.S. District Judge Richard E. Myers, an appointee of President Donald Trump, ruled that Jefferson Griffin, a judge on the state Court of Appeals, cannot “change the rules of the game after it had been played.”
Myers ordered the state not to throw out any votes and to certify the results of the election as they were at the close of the canvass period, with Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs winning by 734 votes.
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However, Myers has put his own order on hold for seven days to give Griffin a chance to appeal.
I would expect this to go to the Supreme Court, where it has no chance, because we know how that the defining characteristic of Chief Justice Roberts legal career can be summarized as, "Not letting n***ers vote," and when added to Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh that gets you to 5 votes against democracy and the rule of law.
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