Contributors to Jefferson Griffin's legal expense fund include a judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals, which could end up handling Griffin's lawsuit to invalidate more than 65,000 ballots in his state Supreme Court race.
Allison Riggs appears to have narrowly won her reelection race. But two of the justices who may decide the case have spouses who donated to her challenger.
The controversial former congressman said the mother of "Success Kid" singled him out for "lawfare" after promoting the meme for billions of other uses.
The House and Senate also confirmed Associate Justice Gregory T. D’Auria for a second eight-year term by lopsided margins.
The Republican leader of the Illinois House and five Illinois voters have filed a lawsuit asking the state Supreme Court to throw out the legislative district map drawn in 2021
With House DFLers absent from the capitol for 10 days, House Republicans have been moving forward with regular business.
Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs appointed Maria Elena Cruz to the Arizona Supreme Court on Wednesday, making the state appellate judge from Yuma County the first Latina and first Black person chosen for the state’s high court.
The Minnesota Supreme Court sided with the DFL in a power struggle with Republicans that the chief justice said had left the state House of Representatives “completely dysfunctional.”
Although officially nonpartisan, state Supreme Court candidates line up with either the Democratic or Republican parties in their campaigns.
A Minnesota Supreme Court ruling made clear that Republicans can’t run the state House on their own, but that doesn’t mean the chamber will get up and running right away.
The state Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would not immediately decide on Judge Jefferson Griffin’s request to discard votes cast in his election, sending the case back to Wake County Superior Court.
The appointment of Maria Elena Cruz broadens the racial, geographic and political diversity of the seven-member, Republican-dominated court.