Riggs v Griffin

The nearly six-month fight over the North Carolina Supreme Court election has proven one thing beyond reasonable doubt: Allison Riggs is supremely better qualified than Jefferson Davis Griffin.

No, his middle name isn’t Davis. But it fits. At UNC, Griffin was a member of Kappa Alpha fraternity and dressed up in a Confederate uniform for “Old South” parties.

Riggs studied microbiology in college, got a masters in history and wanted to be an environmental lawyer. Instead, she became a voting-rights attorney.

Riggs protects voters’ rights. Griffin attacks them.

Governor Roy Cooper appointed Riggs to the Court of Appeals and then the Supreme Court.

Griffin was an assistant DA in Wake County. He ran for DA in 2014, but finished third in a four-candidate Republican primary race.

He got only 22.7% of the vote – in a Republican primary.

After he lost, Governor Pat McCrory appointed him a District Court judge.

Now, even McCrory says Griffin lost the Supreme Court election and should concede.

As Riggs has said:

“The longer this drags out, the more voters are like, I’m just a pawn in their games. And what difference does it make if I vote? Because if the other person wins, they’ll just challenge my vote,” Riggs said. “Every single day that this goes on, it does real and lasting damage to our democracy and people’s faith in it.”

Like Trump, Griffin has utter contempt for the law, for voters and for democracy.

He has proven himself a perfect fit with Trump – and unfit for North Carolina’s highest court.